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What's the key to defeating ISIS?
By Michèle Flournoy
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In Search of a Syria Strategy
The rise of ISIS and the spread of the Syrian civil war to Iraq have led to renewed discussions of U.S. intervention. Middle East Security Research Associate Nicholas Heras de...
By Nicholas Heras
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Dr. Dafna Rand before Senate Committee on Armed Services on U.S. Middle East Policy
Deputy Director of Studies Dr. Dafna Rand testified before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on U.S. Middle East Policy....
By Dafna Rand
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The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria
The Islamic State (IS) suffered a setbackat the northern Syrian-Turkish border city of Kobani. This much-heralded event was important for a reason that has potential future ra...
By Nicholas Heras
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Transcript: Managing, Ending and Avoiding Wars in the Middle East
What I'd like to do today is to lay out the specific variables that are engendering conflict in the region, and that will continue to do so over the five- to 10-year time fram...
By Dafna Rand
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Train-and-Equip: Fight for Pluralism in Syria
This month, the United States and several of its Middle Eastern allies will begin training Syrian fighters through a revamped train-and-equip program that will form the core f...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Key to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran? The Window of Vulnerability
For the past year, the debate on Iran’s nuclear program has focused far too much on the various technical components without examining the sum of its parts. The objective for ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Video: Marc Lynch on Islamic Extremism Threat
By Marc Lynch
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Dr. Dafna H. Rand: The 2015 Middle East Landscape
Deputy Director of Studies Dr. Dafna H. Rand provides a landscape and outlook for the modern Middle East, discussing the transition from peaceful movements to long-term conf...
By Dafna Rand
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SOTU: Nicholas Heras on Syria
President Obama should take this opportunity to present a vision for the framework of a post-Assad Syria, and not simply limit his remarks to an update on the U.S.-led Coaliti...
By Nicholas Heras
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The South will Rise Again
Syria’s civil war is heading toward a point of no return. Advances by the Islamic State (IS) in eastern and northern Syria and the resurgence of other jihadi organizations in ...
By Dafna Rand & Nicholas Heras
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Is Israel increasing its role in Syrian conflict?
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comIn a Fox News interview, Research Assocaite Nick Heras believe the strikes against ISIS are significant in the fight against both Sy...
By Nicholas Heras
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Can air power alone stop advance of Islamic State militants?
By Michèle Flournoy
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Interview: "Face the Nation: September 28: Blinken, Kaine, Flournoy"
By Michèle Flournoy
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Interview: Obama calls on international community to fight extremism
By Dafna Rand
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ISIL: A Well-Oiled Machine
The speed at which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has swept through and taken control of parts of Syria and Northern Iraq is both shocking and unexpected. Th...
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To Defeat ISIL, Empower Sunni Iraqis and Syrians
Thirteen years after 9/11, Islamic militants have seized a state-sized territory in the heart of the Middle East, and the United States is struggling to determine how to respo...
By Paul Scharre
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The New Arab Cold War
A bitter proxy war is being waged in the Middle East. It stretches from Iraq to Lebanon and reaches into North Africa, taking lives in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's Western Des...
By Jacob Stokes
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#ThinkDefense: CEO Michèle Flournoy and NPR's Tom Bowman's Twitter Chat
CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy (@micheleflournoy) and NPR Pentagon Reporter Tom Bowman (@TBowmanNPR) took to Twitter to chat about today's most pressing national security issues in...
By JaRel Clay
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Airpower’s Remarkable Accomplishment
The Pentagon’s announcement on Monday that little more than a dozen airstrikes managed to blunt ISIL’s advances, along with media reports that the bombings enabled 20,000 trap...
By Charles Dunlap & USAF (Ret.)