Daniel Byman

Essays

Security

A Modest Post-Assad Plan

| 10.24.12

Should Assad fall, the ensuing chaos and difficulty will be immense, and calls will rise for U.S. humanitarian intervention. Ambitious initiatives likely will fail, but compelling arguments can be made for going in small.

Society

The Salafi Awakening

| 06.28.12

In the wake of Egypt’s revolution and subsequent elections, Westerners have focused on the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Egyptian Salafis, more fundamentalist than the Brotherhood, bear watching as well.

Society

Latter-Day Sultans

| 06.28.10

Armed with pitch-perfect talking points for the Facebook generation, a clique of fortunate sons in the Middle East is set to take over their fathers' sclerotic dictatorships. But this is not regime change. Monarchy is back.

Security

Rogue Operators

| 07.02.08

Think that state sponsors of terror are pulling all the strings? Think again. Countries like Iran and Syria may play a big role in the terrorism underworld, but they’re quickly losing control over rogues that bite the hands that once fed them.

Security

Keeping the Lid On

| 05.01.07

The negative effects of an Iraqi civil war can be mitigated, even if the conflict itelf cannot be quelled.

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Reviews

Security

How to Fight Terrorism

| 03.01.05

Radical Islam is its own worst enemy. It will marginalize itself unless the United States overreacts.

Commentary

Security

Listing our Terror Problems

| 05.02.08

As Pakistan cuts deals with radical tribal leaders, the best thing the United States can hope for is that the situation in Afghanistan only becomes worse, not a disaster. What the United States needs to do about state sponsors of terrorism.

Countering a Backlash in a Post-Saddam Iraq

| 03.19.03

The greatest challenge that military forces will face in occupying Iraq after Saddam's fall is the risk of a backlash from the Iraqi people.

Security

Can a Democratic Iraq Survive?

| 11.20.02

It is obvious that a good deal of planning must occur about the shape of post-Ba'athi Iraq, even before any shots are fired.

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