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Iraqi insurgency

Dreams of Babylon

Ryan Crocker | Jun 28, 2010
Iraq is not yesterday’s war. If Obama withdraws too quickly, the tenuous peace will collapse.

American Jihad

Bruce Hoffman | Apr 20, 2010
Al-Qaeda has accomplished the unthinkable: establishing an embryonic recruitment, radicalization and operational capacity on our shores. Our current strategy risks another 9/11.

Patient Stabilized?

Stephen Biddle | Feb 29, 2008
Iraq may be emerging from intensive care, but it could use a bit more stitching up.

Invasive Procedures

Ian Bremmer | Feb 29, 2008
Saving Iraq and Afghanistan will require some extensive operations.

The Business of Insurgency

Robert E. Looney | Sep 01, 2005
In Iraq, crime does pay. The insurgency is about more than just politics or ethnicity.

Trouble in Tbilisi

Whit Mason | Mar 01, 2005
Liberty and security are hard to combine. Georgians risk losing both.
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Commentary

Bin Laden's Death Shatters Conventional Wisdom

Bruce Hoffman | May 02, 2011
Why bin Laden's death may not make us safer.

Baghdad's Bad JuJu

Kenneth M. Pollack | Jan 28, 2011
Sadr's back. Iraq is on the brink. Washington sits idly by.

How to Win Afghanistan

Bruce Hoffman | Oct 08, 2009
Drone attacks alone won’t work. We need boots on the ground to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
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Blogs

U.S. Masochism: Trying to Stay in Iraq and Afghanistan

Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 09, 2011
Iraq is not Japan. Afghanistan is not Germany. Remaining in these countries will not end well.

Iraqi Political Culture on Display

Paul R. Pillar | Nov 11, 2010
Don't breathe a sigh of relief yet. Baghdad is still ruled by narrow-minded politicians, not liberal democrats.

The Damage That Keeps On Damaging

Paul R. Pillar | Sep 29, 2010
Al-Qaeda wasn't in Iraq when Saddam was in power. It is now.
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Books & Reviews

Building on Sand?

Amatzia Baram | Sep 01, 2003
Books on "the new Iraq " are already flying off the printer, but are they any good?

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