Category Archive: Iraq
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Pentagon’s ‘War Over Future Wars’ Is Underway
As Republicans and Democrats engage in high stakes horse trading on the congressional deficit reduction “super-committee,” the generals and admirals are circling their wagons, preparing detailed arguments on how their particular specialty is the one capability 21st Century America cannot live without. The “super-committee” – officially the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction – emerged [...]
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Keeping Terrorism at Bay
References to GWOT – as the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon liked to refer to its Global War on Terror – today carry certain freight. Firstly, the misapplication of military force and grand strategy that is the primary foreign policy legacy of the Bush administration has discredited the phrase. With the exception of military and intelligence officials who [...]
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Press Clips: Turkey’s New Influence, America’s Opportunity
Although he died more than seven decades ago, the image of Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, still adorns key chains and government buildings in Ankara. But in the Middle East today, it is another, less secular, Turk who is stealing the show. That’s the lead of a piece that appeared in Sunday’s edition of [...]
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U.S. Drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan Masks Another in Europe
With the focus of the 9/11 events on the U.S. this weekend, it is also worth a look at how the U.S. military is recalibrating after 10 years of war. In Europe, the great withdrawal that never happened when Hitler was defeated is finally underway. The story below was published in GlobalPost.com. NEW YORK — [...]
