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The Center for a New American Security explores issues relating to the U.S. and allied intervention in Libya as well as post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction. This project is a part of our broader research project on the Middle East.

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  • Forging a Libya Strategy: Policy Recommendations for the Obama Administration
    Forging a Libya Strategy: Policy Recommendations for the Obama Administration
    Type of Publication: Policy Brief
    Date: 03/28/2011

    In this policy brief, CNAS experts Andrew Exum and Zachary Hosford offer four policy recommendations for the U.S. strategy in Libya that limit the U.S. expenditure of blood or treasure.

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  • Sustainable Security: Developing a Security Strategy for the Long Haul
    Author(s): Jim Thomas
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 04/01/2008

    The inability of many states in the developing world to govern and police themselves effectively or to work collectively with their neigh­bors to secure their regions represents a global security capacity deficit that can threaten U.S. interests. Effectively addressing this security deficit will require a new approach, one that is more preventive and indirect in its nature, that seeks to husband American power, and that reconciles America’s values, interests, and commitments with its finite resources over the long haul.

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  • Hope Springs Eternal
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Economist

    April 21, 2012 — The Economist reviews CNAS Non Resident Senior Fellow Marc Lynch's new book, The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East.

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  • Syria Rebels "Rebound" - But Will Arming Them Spark Civil Slaughter?
    Type: News Item
    Source: AOL Defense

    April 11, 2012 — CNAS Senior Fellow Andrew Exum speaks about the Free Syrian Army and if the U.S. should arm the fighters in AOL Defense.

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  • Marc Lynch on Syria and the Middle East
    Type: News Item
    Source: C-Span

    April 1, 2012 — On C-SPAN Washington Journal, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Marc Lynch talked about the uprisings in Syria addressing topics such as the international response, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Saudi Arabia and the 60-nation gathering of the "Friends of the Syrian People" in Istanbul, Turkey.

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  • 'Unfinished Revolutions' Churn In Middle East
    Type: News Item
    Source: NPR

    March 24, 2012 — On NPR, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Marc Lynch says no one predicted the uprisings that began to spread across the Arab world in late 2010, but many people saw that the old order was crumbling.

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  • Lynch Responds
    Type: News Item
    Source: The National Interest

    February 28, 2012 — In an essay for The National Interest, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Marc Lynch writes on the Obama administration's implementation of a pragmatic, case-by-case approach to unanticipated challenges in the Middle East. 

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  • The Economist Debate: Syria
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Economist

    February 27, 2012 — CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Marc Lynch contributes to the Economist's debate on Syria, writing on the need to step away from military options and focus instead on diplomatic steps to isolate and pressure the Asad regime.

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  • Supremely Irrelevant
    Type: News Item
    Source: Foreign Policy

    January 25, 2012 — CNAS Senior Fellow Colin Kahl writes in Foreign Policy about how Iran failed to take advantage of the Arab Spring.

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  • Four Reasons Why U.S. Military Intervention in Syria is Unlikely
    Type: News Item
    Source: U.S. News

    January 20, 2012 — CNAS Senior Fellow Andrew Exum comments in U.S. News on why Syria poses challenges to intervention different from those seen in Libya.

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  • NATO's Noble Words Go for Naught
    Type: News Item
    Source: New York Times

    November 7, 2011 — CNAS Deputy Director of Studies and Senior Fellow Nora Bensahel comments in The New York Times on how defense budget cuts could impact U.S. participation in NATO.

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  • Meet Mitt Romney's Radical, Right-wing, Sharia-phobe Foreign Policy Advisor
    Type: News Item
    Source: The New Republic

    October 24, 2011 — Senior Fellow Andrew Exum comments in The New Republic on Romney's selection of Walid Phares as a foreign policy advisor.

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  • counterstrike, 9/11, al qaeda, terrorism, cnas
    Counterstrike: The Untold Story Of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda - Video
    Date: 09/08/2011
    Media: Video

    On September 8, 2011, CNAS held an inaugural book release party at the Willard InterContinental Hotel for Counterstrike. At the release event, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker offered the audience an insider’s look at how the U.S. government has adapted its strategy for fighting terrorism since 2001.

    Watch the video of the event here.

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  • MG Buchanan, Iraq
    MG Jeffrey Buchanan, USA Discussion on Operation New Dawn: Bridge to an Enduring Partnership - Remarks
    Date: 08/18/2011
    Media: Video

    In light of the impending end of the United States Forces–Iraq mission this December, Major General Jeffrey Buchanan, USA, Director of Strategic Effects for United States Forces-Iraq, visited the Center for a New American Security to speak about the evolving role of the United States in Iraq and the challenges and opportunities for the future of U.S.-Iraq relations amidst a changed Middle East. Watch his remarks here.

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  • MG Buchanan, Iraq
    MG Jeffrey Buchanan, USA Discussion on Operation New Dawn: Bridge to an Enduring Partnership - Q&A
    Date: 08/18/2011
    Media: Video

    In light of the impending end of the United States Forces–Iraq mission this December, Major General Jeffrey Buchanan, USA, Director of Strategic Effects for United States Forces-Iraq, visited the Center for a New American Security to speak about the evolving role of the United States in Iraq and the challenges and opportunities for the future of U.S.-Iraq relations amidst a changed Middle East. Watch the question and answer portion of the discussion here.

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  • Command Post, TIME, Center for a New American Security, Libya
    Command Post: "Does It Make Sense for Obama to Bar U.S. Combat Boots in Libya?"
    Date: 08/12/2011
    Media: Video

    War, first and foremost, is a collection of choices. When President Obama ruled out the use of U.S. military boots on the ground inside Libya, it may have made political sense. But did it make military sense as well? John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and I weigh the issue with Andrew Exum, former Army officer now with CNAS, and Paul Hughes, retired Army colonel at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

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  • Command Post, Center for a New American Security, TIME, Libya
    Command Post: "Why Did It Take the U.S. So Long to Recognize the Libyan Rebels?"
    Date: 08/11/2011
    Media: Video

    After five months of bombing the government of Muammar Gadaffi, the U.S. finally recognized Libya's rebel forces. Was this the right decision, and, if so -- why did it take so long? Paul Hughes, a retired Army colonel now with the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Andrew Exum, a Center for a New American Security fellow who has led combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq, chew over the merits of diplomatic recognition with John Nagl of CNAS and me.

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  • Center for a New American Security, TIME, Libya, Gaddafi
    Command Post: "Why Can't NATO Whup Libya?"
    Date: 08/10/2011
    Media: Video

    As NATO's war against Libya nears its sixth-month anniversary, there's one question that keeps churning over and over again in what passes for my mind: why can't the most powerful military alliance in history topple a third-rate army? I discuss the topic with John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security, Paul Hughes, a retired Army officer with the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Andrew Exum, a former Army officer now as CNAS who oversees the Abu Muqawama blog.

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  • Andrew Exum
    Dr. Andrew M. Exum
    Senior Fellow

    Andrew Exum is a Senior Fellow with the Center for a New American Security. A native of East Tennessee, Exum was educated in Philadelphia, Beirut and London.

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  • Zachary Hosford
    Zachary M. Hosford
    Research Associate

    Zachary Hosford is a Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). His research at CNAS centers on U.S. and Asia-Pacific defense and security policy, including weapons acquisition strategy and nuclear weapons policy. Some of his recent work has focused on the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance, China’s naval modernization, the U.S.-China nuclear relationship, South Korean defense capabilities and priorities, U.S. policy regarding North Korean nuclear activities and Aum Shinrikyo’s chemical and biological weapons programs.

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