Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson is a retired Army Special Forces officer, currently at Penn Washington and a member of the Atlantic Council’s Counterterrorism Project. He is formerly of the Institute for the Study of War and the National Security Institute. You can find him on x.com at @mikenelson586.

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Kicking the Can Down the Road for Twenty Years: Paul Miller’s “Choosing Defeat” in Afghanistan

Paul Miller’s new book “Choosing Defeat” spares no party, neither in the military nor the political establishment, in his assessment of how Afghanistan was lost

Hamas’s Real Goal on October 7th: The Diplomatic Isolation of Israel

Despite efforts over the last two years to render Israel a global pariah, the Abraham Accords look set to move forward

Christians Must Counter the Rise of Antisemitism

For Christians who wish to see a society defined by healthy religious pluralism where all of us, including Jews, are free to practice their faith, the recent rise in antisemitism should be highly alarming.