Charles A. Duelfer

Charles A. Duelfer served as deputy executive chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq from 1993 to 2000. He headed the Iraq Survey Group in 2004 and produced the final report on Iraq's WMD, the so-called Duelfer Report. He is the author of Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq (PublicAffairs, 2009) and is presently a consultant at Omnis, Inc.


Essays

Security

Canaries in the Cooling Tower

| 06.24.09

Weapons inspections are frequently derided as the most feckless tool in our nonproliferation arsenal. In our July/August issue, the head of the Iraq Survey Group runs us through his surreal experience.

Commentary

Security

This Decade's Terrorist Threat

| 09.13.11

Ten years after 9/11, the battlefield has changed. And America is more vulnerable than ever.

Security

Rethinking the Threat Matrix

| 07.18.11

The war on terrorism cost trillions of dollars based on flawed assumptions.  The days of kinetic battle are over.  Will Petraeus listen?

Security

Iran's Going Nuclear

| 03.04.11

Revolutions in the Middle East?  No bother for Tehran.  The future couldn't look brighter for the hardliners. 

Security

Web of Destruction

| 11.29.10

Iran and North Korea are part of the same problem. Why Obama's carefully refined foreign-policy analysis could come back to haunt us.

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