A new Op-Ed from Caleb Carr appeared in the New York Daily News this morning. An excerpt from the piece, entitled “Defeating ISIS, slowly but surely: Don’t panic, and don’t expect a Hiroshima moment,” along with a link to the full Op-Ed, can be found below.
Particularly in view of such achievements as the killing last week of Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli — who was, in effect, the treasurer of the Islamic State — it is more vital than ever that the U.S. does not allow events such as the Brussels attacks to derail our current overall strategy against that enemy.
To understand more fully why, we should take a close, honest look at what happened in the capital of the European Union.
Continue reading at the New York Daily News.
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, in his life outside of fiction writing Caleb Carr is a military historian who has authored a number of non-fiction works including The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians in 2002. You can read more about The Lessons of Terror, along with Mr. Carr’s other non-fiction works, in the Other Books section of 17th Street.
