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Can air power alone stop advance of Islamic State militants?
By Michèle Flournoy
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How can U.S. cut off ISIS funding?
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security
Interview: "Does America Have the Right Strategy to Take on ISIS?"By Richard Fontaine
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Interview: "Face the Nation: September 28: Blinken, Kaine, Flournoy"
By Michèle Flournoy
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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. Tho...
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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 / 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 / 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 a...
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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