FYI links for June 2015.

• Author: Clack, George

"Why Has America Stopped Winning Wars?"

Since 1945, the United States has experienced little except military stalemate and loss--precisely because it's a superpower in a more peaceful world.

By Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic. Tierney is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College. His latest book is The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/america-win-loss-iraq-afghanistan/394559/

"Reasons Not to Dally in Iraq"

President Obama's strategy toward Iraq over the last year has been more right than wrong, but his plan to add several hundred American training advisors for Anbar province is too restrained.

By Michael E. O'Hanlon, Brookings Blogs. O'Hanlon is co-director of the Brookings Institution's Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/11-iraq-isil-washington-obama-strategy-risk? utm_campaign=Brookings+Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=18401534&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9nf-NSX3bOZme _43uuNY_3PfGFCW56UokZMqvlEYKqVSMJ4vHel9WnpOMl2F_ljIaRWAJvYx7ilOLLJ4lTbkQn_HakNQ&_hsmi=18401534

"Rumbling and Blundering About Papal Climate Change"

A Catholic blogger takes on the Guardian newspaper's account of the Pope's upcoming encyclical on climate change as well as the UN. Conclusion: "The Pope can do better."

By Thomas Peters, CatholicVote.org Peters, 28, has written the American Papist blog, about the intersection of Catholicism and politics, since 2006..

https://www.catholicvote.org/rumbling-and-blundering-about-papal-climate-change/

"The Evil of Our Time"

The Islamic State (ISIS) is not a terrorist organization. It is an army of conquest destroying all traces of civilization in the lands that it holds. It has taken root in Iraq and Syria, but its evil threatens the whole world. The U.S. must find an answer.

By Frederick W. Kagan, AEI.org. Kagan, author of the 2007 American Enterprise Institute report "Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq," is one of the intellectual architects of the "surge" strategy in Iraq. He is the director of AEI's Critical Threats Project and a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

https://www.aei.org/publication/the-evil-of-our-time/

"The ISIS Beheading Narrative"

To neutralize ISIS Internet recruitment propaganda, we need to understand how the group's symbols...