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Gil Barndollar
Counterterrorism, Foreign and defense policy, Grand strategy, International relations, and Middle East

Gil Barndollar

Non-Resident Fellow

Gil Barndollar is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and a senior research fellow at the Catholic University of America’s Center for the Study of Statesmanship.

Barndollar served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps from 2009 to 2016, deploying to Afghanistan twice, to Guantanamo Bay, and to the Persian Gulf. Barndollar has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, the BBC World Service, and other national and international media outlets. He holds an AB in history from Bowdoin College and MPhil and PhD degrees in history from the University of Cambridge.

op-edAfghanistan, Middle East

How the Taliban built an air force

By Gil Barndollar

October 25, 2024

The collapse of the Afghan state amid the United States’ withdrawal in 2021 gifted the new Taliban government with more […]

op-edIsrael, Israel‑Hamas, Middle East

Harris faces new battles with expanding Middle East conflict

By Gil Barndollar

October 11, 2024

op-edUkraine‑Russia, Europe and Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s Kursk offensive: triumph or tactical misstep?

By Gil Barndollar

September 19, 2024

More from Gil Barndollar

op-edAfghanistan, Middle East

How the Taliban built an air force

By Gil Barndollar

October 25, 2024

op-edIsrael, Israel‑Hamas, Middle East

Harris faces new battles with expanding Middle East conflict

By Gil Barndollar

October 11, 2024

op-edUkraine‑Russia, Europe and Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s Kursk offensive: triumph or tactical misstep?

By Gil Barndollar

September 19, 2024

op-edGrand strategy, Israel, Israel‑Hamas, Middle East, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine‑Russia

America isn’t ready for another war — because it doesn’t have the troops

By Gil Barndollar

September 1, 2024

op-edGrand strategy

The U.S. Navy Can’t Build Ships

By Gil Barndollar and Matthew Mai

May 17, 2024

op-edNATO, Europe and Eurasia, Grand strategy

Sweden’s new model army

By Gil Barndollar

March 15, 2024

Gil Barndollar Past Virtual Events

virtualGlobal posture, Grand strategy

Past Virtual Event: Refusing to choose: did the global posture review fail?

Past Event: December 10, 2021