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Time to Take Chemical Weapons More Seriously

Since the birth of the Chemical Corps back in World War I (then called the Chemical Warfare Service), chemical, biological, ...
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How to Assess Risk in a World of Threats like ...

As U.S. efforts to build an international coalition to confront ISIS continue, so does the national debate regarding if, when, ...
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Is COIN No Longer Relevant?

In another harbinger of the U.S. military’s waning emphasis on counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine, on October 1, the Army Irregular Warfare Center (AIWC) ...
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We Still Need to Defeat Assad, Not Just ISIS

An argument making the rounds is that the al-Assad regime would make the most effective ally for the United States ...
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The Necessary Hypocrisy of Torture

Assume you came to pick up your child from school and found the building locked. A terrorist had hidden a ...
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What the War with ISIS Teaches Us About Strategy

Few words are as ubiquitous and amorphous as the word “strategy.? This has certainly been true regarding the U.S. response ...