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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2011

Libya After Gaddafi: Lessons From Iraq 2003

By James Joyner

The end of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime appears near. Regardless of one’s views on the wisdom of American intervention, that’s cause for celebration.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2011

Building a Capable, Affordable, and Sustainable Afghan National Security Force

By William B. Caldwell IV

For the past 22 months, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan has been implementing a comprehensive security force assistance program in Afghanistan. President Obama laid out the goals of this effort during his December 2009 speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: “deny al Qaeda a safe haven…reverse the Taliban’s momentum and deny it the ability […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 22, 2011

The End of Gaddafi Isn’t the End of the Argument

By James Joyner

Is it time for those who criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the Libya intervention to eat crow?

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New Atlanticist

Aug 22, 2011

Libya: Implementing the Peace

By Julian Lindley-French

Funny how history plays games. On this day in England in 1485 King Richard III lost the battle of Bosworth Field to Henry Tudor. The rest, as they say is history. In Shakespeare’s play the defeated king pleads for a horse so he can flee. I would imagine Colonel (soon-to-be retired) Gaddafi probably wishes for […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 22, 2011

NATO Proves Critics Wrong

By Barry Pavel

The naysayers were in abundance during this long, hot summer in Washington, Brussels, and other major capitals. They said that NATO’s no-fly zone, and the rebel military operations in Libya which NATO was aiding, were ineffective. NATO was running out of ammunition.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 21, 2011

Libya: Carpe Diem Europe!

By Julian Lindley-French

 “No-one starts a war-or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so-without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.” Karl von Clausewitz  Make no mistake; what is happening in Libya right now has the most profound of grand strategic […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 18, 2011

Policymaker’s Fear Of The Italian Penalty Shot

By Edward Hugh

According to one anonymous German official speaking off the record to reporters from Der Spiegel, “a country like Italy can’t be saved.” We will have to trust that he was referring to the country’s size when he made the statement, and not its existential core. If he was, he may well be right, at least under […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 18, 2011

Defining the Defense Problem in an Age of Austerity

By Derek Reveron

With the intent to reduce the US defense budget over the next ten years by $350 billion, Einstein offers sage advice when thinking about major problems. “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.” The problem in this case is not […]

New Atlanticist

Aug 17, 2011

Droning on in Afghanistan

By Sarwar Kashmeri

A century ago, gunboats enforced England’s dominance in the far corners of the world. Kill a British colonial governor and you’d wake up one morning to see a Royal Navy gunboat steaming in over the horizon, guns blazing, as it leveled a village in retaliation. Today it is the drone — the ubiquitous pilotless airplane […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 17, 2011

Ramazan’s Lost Chance for an Afghan Truce

By Maleeha Lodhi

A slew of questions were raised when a Chinook helicopter was shot down on 6 August in Afghanistan ’s Wardak province killing 30 US servicemen – most of them elite Navy seals – and eight Afghans. Will the heaviest loss of American lives in a single incident since 2001 heighten doubts about the Afghan mission […]

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