Middle East

Ashford on the Pop & Locke podcast: The Hurt Locker and the legacies of the war on terror

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On September 9, Emma Ashford joined Natalie Dowzicky, Landry Ayres, and Eric Gomez on the Pop and Locke podcast to discuss the movie “The Hurt Locker,” and the legacies of the war on terror. They discussed whether the movie is an accurate depiction of the experiences of service members during the Iraq War and how […]

Sales quoted in the Washington Times on the Taliban’s intent to run a terror state in Afghanistan

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Sales quoted in Fox News on how the ‘new’ Taliban is just as brutal as ‘old’ pre-9/11 terror organization

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Sales quoted in Washington Examiner on his stance that US counterterrorism has improved in the past 20 years

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Wechsler quoted Spiegel International on the future of counterterrorism

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Ashford in Vox: “I think it’s the rise of China, and more broadly the fact that America is in relative decline … that is where we start hearing some talk of constraints.”

By Atlantic Council

On September 8, Ashford was quoted in a Vox article by Zack Beauchamp on the decline of liberal interventionism. “‘I don’t actually think that the failures of foreign policy in the Middle East alone were enough to catalyze this shift’ against interventionism, says Emma Ashford, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank. ‘I […]

Brahimi in Foreign Policy: “20 Years After 9/11, U.S. Global Authority Is Weaker Than Ever”

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Zais in the Wall Street Journal: “The army needs to understand the Afghanistan disaster”

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Wechsler joins CNBC to discuss how Afghanistan will become a platform for international terrorism

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Nia joins Asymmetrical Haircuts to discuss the Iranian apprehended in Stockholm over war crimes accusations

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