"Institute for the Study of War"

[CTyankee]

Does anyone know about this organization? My Trumpy neighbor is quoting from it and I have never heard of it. Google wasn't too helpful.

Any info welcome Thanks!

[taxi]

1. This explains the connection to the neighbor

Frederick and Kimberly Kagan, a husband-and-wife team of hawkish military analysts, put their jobs at influential Washington think tanks on hold for almost a year to work for Gen. David H. Petraeus when he was the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/civilian-analysts-gained-petraeuss-ear-while-he-was-commander-in-afghanistan/2012/12/18/290c0b50-446a-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

[CTyankee]

2. Oops. Paywall...

[taxi]

3. Hmm, that's odd

Here is something from The New Yorker about Petraeus, being he is who the Kagans did work for.

On Wednesday, Petraeus and I talked by phone about the situation in Afghanistan. We spoke for nearly eighty minutes; Petraeus was passionate about how he felt the Biden Administration had erred in the withdrawal, and why he thought it was wrong to blame Afghan forces for the collapse of the government. He believes the U.S. should have remained in Afghanistan, and gave a full-throated defense of an active military presence abroad. Our conversation, edited for length and clarity, is below.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/david-petraeus-on-american-mistakes-in-afghanistan

[old as dirt]

4. The name gives off a plagerized vibe. Kinda like the NAAWP.

[canetoad]

5. They have a website

Here: https://www.understandingwar.org/