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Terrorism & Irregular Warfare

CNAS explores  strategies for combating  terrorism, violent extremism, and various approaches for tackling the significant challenges posed by insurgencies and irregular warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the globe.

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  • Afghanistan - A Partnership in Flux
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Kojo Nnamdi Show

    March 13, 2012 — On The Kojo Nnamdi Show, CNAS Deputy Director of Studies Nora Bensahel talks about the new risks facing the U.S. military and diplomatic figures who are working with Afghan partners.

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  • Soldier's killing spree: Is end of Afghanistan war near?
    Type: News Item
    Source: Christian Science Monitor

    March 13, 2012 — In the Christian Science Monitor, CNAS Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) comments on the influence of public opinion in Afghanistan and the United States in determining a change of U.S. strategy going forward.

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  • Massacre Plays Into The Hands Of Taliban Propaganda
    Type: News Item
    Source: NPR

    March 13, 2012 — CNAS Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) speaks on NPR's Morning Edition about the recent incident of a U.S. soldier killing 16 Afghan civilians.

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  • Afghan Massacre Raises Doubts About Overall War Strategy
    Type: News Item
    Source: National Journal

    March 12, 2012 — In the National Journal, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow COL Robert Killebrew, USA (Ret.) comments on recent incidents involving U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, which he says have heavily damaged support for the war in both countries.

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  • Shootings Fray Afghan Ties
    Type: News Item
    Source: Wall Street Journal

    March 12, 2012 — In The Wall Street Journal, CNAS Senior Fellow Andrew Exum states that the incident of a U.S. soldier opening fire on Afghan civilians may impact current talks over a long-term partnership agreement between the two nations.

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  • Shooting Raises Questions About U.S. Course in Afghanistan
    Type: News Item
    Source: Reuters

    March 11, 2012 — CNAS Senior Fellow Andrew Exum talks to Reuters about whether or not internal political pressures in Afghanistan will constrain the options of Afghan negotiators, ranging on issues from U.S. basing rights to night raids.

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  • LYONS: Forcing Our Military’s Submission
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Washington Times

    March 8, 2012 — CNAS Visiting Fellow MAJ Fernando Lujan, USA is mentioned in the Washington Times, echoing concerns of eroding trust between Afghans and Americans in the aftermath of recent Quran burnings in the country.

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  • How to Get Afghans to Trust Us Once Again
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Washington Post

    March 2, 2012 — In an op-ed for The Washington Post, CNAS Visiting Fellow MAJ Fernando Lujan, USA offers insight to defeat the notion that our forces are in Afghanistan to destroy Islam and to restore trust between local units and U.S. advisors.

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  • Quran Burnings Complicate U.S. Role In Afghanistan
    Type: News Item
    Source: National Public Radio

    March 1, 2012 — CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow John Nagl is interviewed on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation," where he talks about the effect of recent Quran burnings in Afghanistan and the future U.S. role in the country.

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  • Quran Incident 'Tailor-Made' for Taliban
    Type: News Item
    Source: USA Today

    February 27, 2012 — In USA Today, CNAS Senior Advisor LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) comments on the potential breakdown in trust between Afghan and coalition forces in light of the recent outbreak of violence in the country.

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  • A Roundtable Discussion on Nigeria with Assistant Secretary of State Michael H.
    Roundtable Discussion on Nigeria with Assistant Secretary of State Michael H. Posner
    January 28, 2013 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
    Center for a New American Security
    Washington, District of Columbia

    On Monday, January 28, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted a roundtable discussion on the security situation in Nigeria featuring Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael H. Posner.

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  • thomas de maziere, center for a new american security, counterinsurgency
    Counterinsurgency and Afghanistan: Experiences, Strategies and Perspectives
    February 17, 2012 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
    The Willard InterContinental Hotel's Crystal Room
    Washington, District of Columbia

    On February 17, the Center for a New American Security and ISPK hosted Dr. Thomas de Maizière, Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany, for a public address titled “Counterinsurgency and Afghanistan: Experiences, Strategies and Perspectives.” Dr. de Maizière’s address was followed by a question and answer session chaired by Dr. John A. Nagl, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow.

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  • Lt. Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, Afghanistan, ANA
    Roundtable Discussion with Lieutenant General Sher Mohammad Karimi, Chief of Staff for the Afghan Military
    February 8, 2012 - 9:00am - 11:00am
    Center for a New American Security
    Washington, District of Columbia

    On February 8, the Center for a New American Security hosted a discussion about the future of Afghanistan with Lieutenant General Sher Mohammad Karimi, Chief of Army Staff for the Afghan military. Lieutenant General Karimi discussed some of his current challenges and concerns, focusing on the Afghan Air Force and continued international support for the ANA beyond 2014.

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  • The Partnership
    The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb
    January 4, 2012 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm
    The W Hotel
    Washington, District of Columbia

    The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) cordially invites you to the book launch for The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb by award-winning New York Times journalist Philip Taubman. RSVP here or call (202) 457-9427.

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  • Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity
    October 7, 2011 - 8:30am - 10:30am
    The Newseum's Knight Conference Center
    Washington, District of Columbia

    On October 7, 2011, CNAS released Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity at an event featuring a discussion with the report authors - LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Dr. Nora Bensahel and Travis Sharp - and leading defense and budget experts Gordon Adams and Tom Donnelly.

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  • Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
    Roundtable Discussion with NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Ambassador Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
    September 16, 2011 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
    Center for a New American Security
    Washington, District of Columbia

    On September 16, the Center for a New American Security hosted a roundtable discussion with NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Ambassador Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic on the key themes that will shape NATO's spring 2012 summit.

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  • Counterstrike
    Counterstrike: The Untold Story Of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
    September 8, 2011 - 5:30pm - 8:00pm
    The Willard InterContinental Hotel's Grand Ball Room
    Washington, District of Columbia

    The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) cordially invites you to the inaugural book release party for COUNTERSTRIKE: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against al Qaeda by acclaimed New York Times national security reporters and former CNAS Writers in Residence Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker.

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  • MG Buchanan, CNAS, Iraq, security agreement, Operation New Dawn
    MG Jeffrey Buchanan, USA Discussion on Operation New Dawn: Bridge to an Enduring Partnership
    August 18, 2011 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
    Center for a New American Security
    Washington, District of Columbia

    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 CNAS 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.

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  • Secretary Panetta
    Challenges for the New U.S. Secretary of Defense
    August 4, 2011 - 7:45am - 9:15am
    The Willard InterContinental Hotel
    Washington, District of Columbia

    On August 4, CNAS President John A. Nagl, Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.), and Deputy Director of Studies and Senior Fellow Dr. Nora Bensahel led a roundtable discussion over breakfast addressing the challenges faced by the new U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. 

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  • Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons
    July 28, 2011 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
    The Willard InterContinental Hotel's Grand Ball Room
    Washington, District of Columbia

    In 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed terror on the Tokyo subway system with a highly-publicized sarin gas attack. However, less is known about the group’s development of biological and chemical weapons and about their prior attacks using these weapons. 

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  • Command Post, terrorism, TIME, Center for a New American Security
    Command Post Episode Three: "Counter-Insurgency versus Counter-Terrorism?"
    Date: 07/13/2011
    Media: Video

    Since President Obama announced his plan to begin pulling 33,000 troops out of Afghanistan by the end of next summer, there's been a lot of debate over whether this marks the end of a counter-insurgency campaign and the beginning of a counter-terror strategy. Is it really a binary choice -- does it have to be one or the other  -- and does it make any difference to the grunts on the ground?

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  • Command Post, terrorism, TIME, Center for a New American Security
    Command Post Episode Two: "Is Counter-Insurgency Dead?"
    Date: 07/12/2011
    Media: Video

    Here's our second take on President Obama's Afghan policy in our new video series featuring John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and your Battleland scribe. We're chatting this week with Dr. Nora Bensahel, a noted COIN expert formerly at the Rand Corp. and now at CNAS, and Dave Barno, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan in 2003-2004.


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  • Command Post, terrorism, TIME, Center for a New American Security
    Command Post Episode One: President Obama's evolving strategy for Afghanistan
    Date: 07/11/2011
    Media: Video

    The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of Command Post, a new video series from CNAS and TIME. The video series will take week-long looks at key national security issues, with a new angle explored each day in brief video conversations between co-hosts CNAS President John Nagl and TIME national-security correspondent Mark Thompson, and noted defense experts.  Command Post will appear on CNAS.org and TIME.com’s Battleland blog.

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  • ADM Gary Roughead
    Audio: Admiral Gary Roughead: A Global Navy In A Time Of Change
    Date: 06/23/2011
    Media: Audio

    On June 23, 2011, CNAS hosted Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, for a speech on "A Global Navy in a Time of Change."

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  • ADM Gary Roughead
    Video: Admiral Gary Roughead: A Global Navy In A Time Of Change
    Date: 06/23/2011
    Media: Video

    On June 23, 2011, CNAS hosted Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, for a speech on "A Global Navy in a Time of Change."

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  • John Nagl
    Obama Preps Afghanistan Drawdown, But Debate Lingers On End Goals
    Date: 06/21/2011
    Media: Video

    CNAS President John Nagl discusses the implications of the Afghanistan troop withdrawal

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  • Video: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda: 10 Years After 9/11 and Beyond
    Video: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda: 10 Years After 9/11 and Beyond
    Date: 06/20/2011
    Media: Video

    The "Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda: 10 Years After 9/11 and Beyond," session at the CNAS fifth annual conference featured: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor of The Washington Post; Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at CNAS; Steve Coll, President of New America Foundation; Ambassador Anne Patterson, Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; and Bing West, Author of The Wrong War. Watch the video here.

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  • Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda: 10 Years After 9/11 and Beyond
    Transcript: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda: 10 Years After 9/11 and Beyond
    Date: 06/20/2011
    Media: Transcript

    The "Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda: 10 Years After 9/11 and Beyond," session at the CNAS fifth annual conference featured: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor of The Washington Post; Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at CNAS; Steve Coll, President of New America Foundation; Ambassador Anne Patterson, Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; and Bing West, Author of The Wrong War. Read the transcript here.

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  • Speech by Jake Sullivan, Director of Policy Planning
    Transcript: Speech by Jake Sullivan, Director of Policy Planning
    Date: 06/20/2011
    Media: Transcript

    CNAS hosted Jake Sullivan, Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, for an address on "American Foreign Policy Priorities in an Age of Uncertainty," at the CNAS fifth annual conference on June 2, 2011. Read the transcript here.

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  • Keynote Address by Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, USA
    Transcript: Keynote Address by Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, USA
    Date: 06/20/2011
    Media: Transcript

    Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, USA, joined the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011, via VTC from Ft. Lewis, Washington to deliver the keynote address "Afghanistan 2011: The Operational Commander's Perspective."

    
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  • David Barno
    Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.)
    Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow

    General Barno, a highly decorated military officer with over 30 years of service, has served in a variety of command and staff positions in the United States and around the world, to include command at every level. He served many of his early years in special operations forces with Army Ranger battalions, to include combat in both the Grenada and Panama invasions. In 2003, he was selected to establish a new three-star operational headquarters in Afghanistan and take command of the 20,000 U.S. and Coalition Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom. For 19 months in this position, he was responsible for the overall military leadership of this complex political-military mission, devising a highly innovative counterinsurgency strategy in close partnership with the U.S. embassy and coalition allies.

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  • Dr. Nora Bensahel
    Dr. Nora Bensahel
    Deputy Director of Studies and Senior Fellow

    Dr. Nora Bensahel is Deputy Director of Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.  She recently co-authored Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity, and Sustainable Pre-eminence: Reforming the U.S. Military at a Time of Strategic Change. Her other research interests include stability operations, counterinsurgency, civilian capacity for operations abroad, and coalition and alliance operations. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A.

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  • Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
    Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program

    Patrick M. Cronin is a Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).  Previously, he was the Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at National Defense University and has a nearly 30-year career inside government and academic research centers, spanning defense affairs, foreign policy, and development assistance.

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  • Robert Leslie Deak
    Robert Leslie Deak
    Board of Directors, National Defense University

    Robert Leslie Deak is President and Chief Executive Officer of Bittachon Holdings, Inc, a firm based out of Rye, New York, that develops and manages companies in the United States and the broader Middle East. Previously, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American National Bank of New York from 1985 to 1991 and before that was President and CEO of Deak-Perera US, Inc., from 1973 to 1985.

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  • Peter deNeufville
    Peter B. deNeufville
    Chairman, Voltaix, LLC

    Peter deNeufville serves as Chairman of Voltaix, L.L.C., a manufacturer of chemical-vapor-deposition materials for the semiconductor and thin-film photovoltaic industries.  He is also a partner in DNAC, a New York-based merchant advisory firm.  He has helped finance and served as a director for a number of early-stage technology companies. 

    Mr. deNeufville is also active in national security and environmental issues.  He is a reserve officer in the U.S.

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  • Lieutenant General David A. Deptula (Ret.)
    Lieutenant General David A. Deptula, USAF (Ret.)
    President and Chief Executive Officer, The Deptula Group, LLC

    Lieutenant General David A. Deptula (Ret.) is a highly decorated military leader who transitioned from the U.S.

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  • Major General Charles Dunlap, USAF (Ret.)
    Associate Director, Duke University School of Law Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security

    Prior to his retirement on 1 June 2010, Major General Dunlap served as Deputy Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force.  In that position he assisted in the professional oversight of more than 2,200 judge advocates, 350 civilian attorneys, 1,400 enlisted paralegals and 500 civilians assigned worldwide.  In addition to overseeing an array of military justice, operational, international and civil law functions, General Dunlap provided legal advice to the Air Staff and commanders at all levels.

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  • David Finkel
    David Finkel
    Writer in Residence

    David Finkel is the author of The Good Soldiers, a ground-level account of the U.S. "surge" into the Iraq war, published in 2009 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An editor and writer for The Washington Post, Finkel has reported from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and across the United States, and was part of the Post’s war coverage in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.

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  • Dr. Colin H. Kahl
    Dr. Colin H. Kahl
    Senior Fellow

    Dr. Colin H. Kahl is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) focusing on Middle East security and defense policy and an associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

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  • Dr. David Kilcullen
    President and CEO, Caerus Associates

    Dr. David Kilcullen is a former Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Dr. Kilcullen was also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with CNAS in 2007 and collaborated with CNAS on Iraq and Afghanistan reports, as well as violent extremism and grand strategy Solarium projects in 2007 and 2008.  

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