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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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    Strategic Adaptation: Toward a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 06/06/2012

    In Strategic Adaptation: Toward a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East, authors Dr. Bruce W. Jentleson, Dr. Andrew M. Exum, Melissa G. Dalton and J. Dana Stuster chart the fundamentals of a revised strategy for U.S. Middle East policy, starting with a reevaluation of U.S. interests and an assessment of the evolving strategic context. The approach they propose is one of “strategic adaptation” to meet immediate challenges while simultaneously responding to regional trends that will affect the region – and U.S. engagement – for decades to come.

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  • The Arab Uprising, Marc Lynch, CNAS, Arab Spring
    The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
    Author(s): Dr. Marc Lynch
    Type of Publication: Book
    Date: 03/27/2012

    In The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East, Dr. Marc Lynch, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CNAS and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, discusses one of the most fundamental changes throughout the history of the modern Middle East: the empowerment of a new generation of Arabs who reject the world they inherited.

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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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  • Iraq a Testament to Barack Obama Leadership
    Type: News Item
    Source: Politico

    March 18, 2012 — As we mark the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, CNAS Co-Chair of the Board of Directors The Honorable Michѐle flournoy discusses President Obama's careful and successful efforts in reversing the effects of the War in Iraq.

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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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    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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  • Analysis: Obama builds national security record
    Type: News Item
    Source: USA Today

    October 20, 2011 — CNAS Senior Fellow Andrew Exum comments in USA Today on President Obama's national security record.

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  • China’s Arab Spring Cyber Lessons
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Diplomat

    October 3, 2011 — CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine and Research Associate Will Rogers write in The Diplomat about the cyber lessons China has learned from the Arab Spring.

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  • U.S. Spending More to Help Libyans Secure Weapons Stockpiles
    Type: News Item
    Source: National Journal

    September 27, 2011 — CNAS round table discussion with Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro mentioned in National Journal.

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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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  • 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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