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Precision Lethality and Civilian Harm Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities in the Future of Warfighting

Foreign Policy Essay

Dangers of Deploying the Military on U.S. Soil

Hamas or the Palestinian Authority: Who will fail first?

Daniel Byman

Sep 20, 2015

As the Arab Spring went sour, country after country in the Middle East went from protest and nascent democracy to strife and even civil war. Yet one part of the region seemed relatively untouched: the Pa...
From Al Qaeda in Iraq to ISIS, From al Zarqawi to al Baghdadi

Bruce Riedel

Sep 15, 2015

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS Joby Warrick Doubleday (2015) Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
Don’t (Completely) Blame America for Baghdadi

William McCants

Sep 13, 2015

Editor’s Note: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brutal leader of the world’s most brutal terrorist group, is an enigma to many Westerners. Unlike Osama bin Laden, Baghdadi does not grant long interviews to West...