Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is a professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He is openDemocracy's international security adviser, and has been writing a weekly column on global security since 28 September 2001; he also writes a monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group. His latest book is Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins (IB Tauris, 2016), which follows Why We’re Losing the War on Terror (Polity, 2007), and Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 3rd edition, 2010).

Trump, Pence, Jerusalem: The Christian Zionism Connection

The political use of a religious vision spells danger for Israel, America, and the world.

Paul Rogers
By Paul Rogers
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, Sunday, March 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Donald Trump announced on 6 December that the United States was recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Most notable about his speech was not what he said, or how he said it, but the presence and demeanor of vice-president Mike Pence. Though an element almost entirely missing from the reams of analysis following Trump’s statement, Pence's

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Trump Expanding Mideast Wars: 26,000 Troops In Iraq, Syria And Afghanistan

The Trump wars era brings a reconfiguration: plenty of remote warfare and far more military personnel abroad.

Paul Rogers
By Paul Rogers
U.S. Marines prepare to build a military site in western Anbar, Iraq. The US' newest outpost is in this dusty corner of western Iraq near the border with Syria where several hundred American Marines operate close to the battlefront. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

A new era is opening almost by stealth. Its defining feature is a military expansion, ordered by the United States president and conducted by the Pentagon. Underlying it is Trump's fusion of elements from the strategy of his two predecessors, George W Bush and Barack Obama. A recent, low-profile Pentagon document gives a hint of the US's current

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