John D.S. Allen: “The knockout blow in insurgency is not delivered by the military. The knockout blow is delivered by the development of…”

I support the vaccine mandate. I wrote about this in The Washington Post last month. We hit the limit of the voluntary approach. We’ve tried the hand-holding, we’ve tried cajoling, we’ve tried the beer and the lotteries. It’s not working…

This is an opportunity for reform from the bottom up. And it's an opportunity for leadership from the top down.

The Taliban will never accord Afghan women and girls the respect and the place in the future Afghan society that they deserve.

I agree with getting the big fish and everything, but not when people are dying while we’re doing these investigations.