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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
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Video: Rep. Michael McCaul and Michèle Flournoy Discuss Middle East
By Michèle Flournoy
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Obama repeats his Iraq mistake in AfghanistanAs the Obama administration grapples with how to respond to the terrorist takeover of northern Iraq, one consequence of the crisis should be clear: There is an urgent need to ...
By Vance Serchuk
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Video: Can Iraq save itself?
By Michèle Flournoy
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Iraq and the Fall of Saigon
For Americans of a certain age, the near-collapse of the U.S.-trained Iraqi Army and the possibility of an ISIS takeover of Baghdad has disturbing similarities to the rout of ...
By USA (Ret.) & Robert Killebrew
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Learning From Iraq to Prepare for Afghanistan’s Post-2016 FutureIn a revealing quirk of history, the crisis in Iraq caused by the sudden onslaught of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) can help us better understand possible scenari...
By Richard Weitz
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Video: Shi’ite, Sunni leaders call for unity
By Colin H. Kahl
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No, Obama Didn’t Lose Iraq
The surprising advances by jihadists in northern and western Iraq have produced at least one unsurprising result: accusations that President Obama’s “abandonment” of Iraq is r...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Twitter Reacts to the CNAS Debate: War with Iran?Two of the country's top collegiate debate programs - Georgetown University and the University of Michigan - squared off on one of the most contested foreign policy issues of ...
By JaRel Clay