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After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

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Committed as Hezbollah is to saving its Gaza-based allies, the group does not currently want a full war with Israel.

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Thinking Beyond the Stalemate in U.S.-Iranian Relations: Volume I

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Aug 21, 2024

How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

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To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.

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Thinking Beyond the Stalemate in U.S.-Iranian Relations: Volume I

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Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

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Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.

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May 1, 2001

Thinking Beyond the Stalemate in U.S.-Iranian Relations: Volume I

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Elaine L. Morton</span>

This publication addresses the stalemate between the US and Iran. It argues that the stalemate satisfies emotionally many Americans but does not serve overall US interests. According to the paper, it hinders the achievement of several key US geopolitical interests, especially over the longer term. Download the PDF

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Apr 1, 2001

Enforcing the Peace: An American Bird’s Eye View

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >David C. Acheson</span>

This paper examines the factors that make peace enforcement politically and operationally complicated and undermine the will, the resources and the parliamentary consensus to undertake missions of peace enforcement. The author outlines two phases of the peace-enforcement process: one is a combat phase, the application of armed force to suppress hostilities. Phase two, presumptively a […]

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Jan 2, 2001

Strategic Assesment of Central Eurasia

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Charles Fairbanks, S. Frederick Starr, C. Richard Nelson, and Kenneth Weisbrode</span>

This assessment outlines a basis for U.S. national security planning related to Central Eurasia over the next ten years. The region covered encompasses the five former Soviet states of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and the three former Soviet states of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Download the […]

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Sep 1, 2000

European Views of National Missile Defense

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Stephen Cambone, Ivo Daalder, Stephen J. Hadley, and Christopher J. Makins</span>

In this situation, the Atlantic Council decided that it would be timely to send to European capitals a team of respected leaders and experts involved in the missile defense debate in the United States. Their purpose was to engage a wide range of European leaders and experts both inside and outside governments, in intensive dialogue […]

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Mar 1, 2000

The Kosovo Crisis: The End of the Post-Cold War Era

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Alexei G. Arbatov</span>

Just a couple of years ago very few people in the United States, Russia or Western Europe, beside experts on the Balkans, would have recognized the name Kosovo and still fewer would have known anything about this obscure Serbian province. Since early 1999 all the world’s attention has been concentrated on the events in this […]

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Aug 1, 1999

NATO In 2010

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Marten H.A. van Heuven</span>

From defense to deterrence, then détente and cooperation, analysts have tracked the evolution of NATO through the second half of the 20th century. Now in the aftermath of the Balkan crises, the international community is confronted with the inevitability—and perhaps necessity—of further modification to the structure and responsibilities of NATO. These uncertainties are explored by […]

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