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Interview: Obama calls on international community to fight extremism
By Dafna Rand
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Video: Senate OKs training Syrian rebels to fight ISIS terrorists
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By Dafna Rand
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Interview: White House Strategy Against ISIS Feasible?
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By John A. Nagl
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ISIL: A Well-Oiled Machine
The speed at which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has swept through and taken control of parts of Syria and Northern Iraq is both shocking and unexpected. Th...
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How the US should tackle ISIS
President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech tonight outlining his strategy for confronting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). As Obama told NBC’s Mee...
By Marc Lynch
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
To Defeat ISIL, Empower Sunni Iraqis and SyriansThirteen years after 9/11, Islamic militants have seized a state-sized territory in the heart of the Middle East, and the United States is struggling to determine how to respo...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
The Islamic State's Dangerous Influence in AsiaIn places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of th...
By Hannah Suh
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The New Arab Cold War
A bitter proxy war is being waged in the Middle East. It stretches from Iraq to Lebanon and reaches into North Africa, taking lives in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's Western Des...
By Jacob Stokes
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
#ThinkDefense: CEO Michèle Flournoy and NPR's Tom Bowman's Twitter ChatCNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy (@micheleflournoy) and NPR Pentagon Reporter Tom Bowman (@TBowmanNPR) took to Twitter to chat about today's most pressing national security issues in...
By JaRel Clay
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
Airpower’s Remarkable AccomplishmentThe Pentagon’s announcement on Monday that little more than a dozen airstrikes managed to blunt ISIL’s advances, along with media reports that the bombings enabled 20,000 trap...
By Charles Dunlap & USAF (Ret.)
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Would arming Syria’s rebels have stopped the Islamic State?
Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton made news this weekend by suggesting that the rise of the Islamic State might have been prevented had the Obama administration...
By Marc Lynch
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When the F-18s Leave, Iraqi Government Formation Will Still be Unfinished
In keeping with American interests and values, President Obama rightly authorized limited air strikes to protect U.S. personnel in Irbil and to save tens of thousands of Iraqi...
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Avoiding the Slippery Slope
President Obama’s decision to authorize airstrikes against ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) forces in Iraq marks a lethal return to a conflict that has consumed...
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Defending the Kurds, Not Iraq
The airstrikes that began this morning in the northern region of Iraq are a limited action to defend the Kurds, which will not necessarily lead to an expansive U.S. military c...
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Your War, Mr. President
The evening of August 7, President Barack Obama did something that he could never have imagined doing in the second year of his second term: authorizing U.S. military combat ...
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Political science after Gaza
Israel’s latest war with Gaza has already killed more than a thousand people, including hundreds of children, while showing few signs of significantly changing anything fundam...
By Marc Lynch
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Iran's Highly Enriched Bargaining Chip
As talks over Iran's disputed nuclear program enter the home stretch, Tehran has placed a major obstacle in the way of a diplomatic solution: insistence on an industrial-scale...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Arabs do care about Gaza
Since the Arab uprisings began in late 2010, Palestine has seemed to recede to the margins of Arab discourse. The agenda has been understandably dominated by intensely urgent ...
By Marc Lynch
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
How worried should U.S. policymakers be about nuclear blackmail?In recent years, a new generation of scholars has increasingly turned to sophisticated statistical methods to tackle decades-old questions regarding the causes and consequence...
By Colin H. Kahl
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
Maliki Isn’t The Problem. Oil Is.During the past few days, the United States strategy for addressing the escalating violence in Iraq has emphasized diplomacy to achieve political reconciliation. The Obama adm...
By Nora Bensahel