National Security Commentator

Robert Tate

1 article 2015

Robert Tate contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis of U.S. counterterrorism policy. His writing for the magazine focused on critiquing American strategy against ISIS.

Why Our ISIS Strategies Are Useless

October 15, 2015 · Strategy, ISIS, Blog

Unfortunately, the United States’s strategies against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) are fundamentally flawed and doomed to fail. A review of the U.S. Joint Doctrine demonstrates that we lack both clear objectives and strategies. This is recipe for failure.