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Stop Trying to Renegotiate the SOFA
Over the past few weeks, top U.S. officials have started to publicly press the Iraqi government to decide whether it will allow thousands of American troops to stay in the cou...
By Brian Burton
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Challenges for Obama's New National Security Team are Huge
President Barack Obama's national security shake-up will pit some of America's most able practitioners against some of the nation's most intractable challenges. The forceful, ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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After Gates: Asymmetric Threats
When Robert Gates began his service as U.S. secretary of defense, his priorities were clear: "Iraq, Iraq and Iraq," as he said at his Senate confirmation hearing. The priority...
By John A. Nagl
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After Bashar al-Assad, the Deluge
The late Princeton scholar Philip K. Hitti called Greater Syria -- the historical antecedent of the modern republic -- "the largest small country on the map, microscopic in si...
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As Debt Grows, So Does U.S. Exposure to Attack
On Wednesday, President Obama grabbed onto one of the most highly charged issues in American politics: deficit reduction. The president’s speech offered a sensible way forward...
By Travis Sharp
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Twilight of a Strongman
Over the past decade, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been the quintessential U.S. ally in the Middle East -- a useful, mercurial dictator who rules through a combinat...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why It's Hard For Strongmen To Leave
By any rational standard, it would seem that the fighting and power struggles in the Ivory Coast, Libya, and Yemen should have been over weeks ago. Maybe soon they all will be...
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Military Spending Must Be Part of the Deficit Debate
The budget compromise reached by the White House and Congress this weekend included a "historic amount of cuts," as House Speaker John Boehner and Senate majority leader Harry...
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Japan’s New Deal Opportunity
Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered office in the midst of an historic internal disaster, the Great Depression. But although FDR exuded the confidence to inspire a nation, he la...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Beware The Void Under Tyranny
With fighting near the end between the armies of two presidential aspirants in Ivory Coast, that country is at the bottom of a descent that began in 1993 with the death of the...
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Messages From a Libyan Intervention
Pundits around the world have been debating the meaning of the US intervention in Libya since the first bombs began falling last week. Does Libya mark a new direction in US f...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Surgical Financial Strikes Can Oust Gaddafi
Over the past week the Libyan no-fly zone has prevented Muammer Gaddafi from killing innocent civilians, but not forced him from power. None of the long-term options for Libya...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Refocus Mideast Presence
The popular upheavals shaking the established political order in the Middle East may throw U.S. defense strategy in the region into disarray. In the span of barely two months,...
By Brian Burton
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The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of w...
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The Ties that Bind? U.S.–Indian Values-based Cooperation
CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine co-authored a Washington Quarterly article about the evolution of U.S.-India relations. Both New Delhi and Washington have rhetorically inv...
By Richard Fontaine
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Does the World Belong in Libya's War?
President Barack Obama's decision to militarily intervene in Libya is already off to a good start. I say this as someone who has been deeply skeptical of intervention. I feare...
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Should the U.S. Move Against Qaddafi? A Logical, But Difficult, Step
The administration is right to ratchet up the pressure on Colonel Qaddafi and his brutal regime. Talking of establishing a no-flight zone, repositioning American military asse...
By Richard Fontaine
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Oman's Renaissance Man
The democratic upheaval across the Arab world has now become so profound and overwhelming -- so unstoppable -- as to engulf arguably the least oppressive and most competent au...
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Arab Democracy And The Return of The Mediterranean World
With the toppling of autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia - and other Arab dictators, such as Libya's, on the ropes - some have euphorically announced the arrival of democr...
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Cyber Sanity
Despite a ballooning federal debt and intense pressures on the federal budget, cyber security has become Washington’s new growth industry. The U.S. government has spent over $...
By Kristin M. Lord & Travis Sharp