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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

March 26, 2013 | National Review Online
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Why Did We Invade Iraq?

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)
March 20, 2013 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
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One Bright Spot in All This

by Kiron K. Skinner (W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow and member of the Task Force on Energy Policy)
January 14, 2013 | National Review Online
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Our Sort-of War on Terror

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)
September 11, 2012 | Politico
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Mitt Romney Finesses Afghanistan Plans

Kori Schake (Research Fellow) is quoted
May 8, 2012 | Corner (National Review Online)
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Is the War on Terror Really All That Over?

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)
I am not sure at all that “we have killed most of al-Qaeda” or that would-be recruits in places like Yemen, Saudi Arabia, or Kuwait feel that they don’t have to go into al-Qaeda because a Mubarak or Qaddafi is gone...
May 3, 2012 | Washington Times
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Obama’s Osama optics

by Bill Whalen (Research Fellow)
Without a solid record, president scavenges for votes...
May 3, 2012 | Washington Times
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An echo of regrettable history

by Thomas H. Henriksen (Senior Fellow)
Obama’s remarks from Kabul...
April 3, 2012 | Room for Debate (New York Times)
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Afghan Leaders and Troops Need Time

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)
It’s been a discouraging several weeks in the Afghan war, but we absolutely should not speed the pace of our withdrawal...
March 12, 2012 | Corner (National Review Online)
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Bad or Worse in Afghanistan?

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)
The latest mass killing by an American soldier follows a three-year downward spiral...After ten years, we have forgotten why we went into Afghanistan in the first place...
March 3, 2012 | Lawfare
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CIA, Drones and Proxy Forces, and the Exit from Afghanistan

by Kenneth Anderson (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
As drone warfare, targeted killing, discrete and discriminating uses of force through advanced technology become the new normal..., they will not remain in the shadows, neither will they be justified by some immediate exigency...