Hoover Daily Report by topic: Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

March 3, 2012 | Lawfare

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...

February 28, 2012 | Corner (National Review Online)

Resettling the Mujahedeen-e Khalq of Iraq

by Daniel Pipes

These steps offer a way to resettle MeK members and resolve an urgent impending human tragedy in advance of the looming April 30 deadline...

February 27, 2012 | Lawfare

Readings: Pir Zubair Shah, My Drone War

by Kenneth Anderson (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

Journalist Pir Zubair Shah writes in the March-April 2012 issue of Foreign Policy. My Drone War: American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of life in a secret war that is far from over...

February 18, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society

Good News From Afghanistan

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)

This week something small but hugely important occurred in Afghanistan: their military leadership concluded an investigation into the attacks on U.S. and other coalition forces, and has made policy recommendations to their government to reduce the incidence of attacks...

February 9, 2012 | Room for Debate (New York Times)

Congress Needs to Demand a Plan

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)

Congress should demand that the administration produce a plan with measurable objectives for what our mission in Iraq will achieve. We hold our military to that standard, and we should expect the same of our diplomats...

February 8, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

So much for leading through civilian power

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)

The discouraging truth is that despite the State Department's bold assertions in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review that it will lead through civilian power, its handling of the transition to civilian leadership of our mission in Iraq demonstrates how very far we have yet to go...

February 2, 2012 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

Writing off Afghanistan, too

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)

The Obama administration is sending contradictory messages on a crucially important national security subject...

January 25, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Iraq After America

by Lieutenant Colonel Joel Rayburn (contributor to the working group on Islamism and the international order)

2012 promises to be a stormy year for the beleaguered country...

January 23, 2012 | Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report)

Back to Kurdistan

by Thomas H. Henriksen (Senior Fellow)

The Obama administration's precipitous departure of U.S. military forces from Iraq jeopardizes American interests in the Middle East and beyond...

January 23, 2012 | Advancing a Free Society

An Irresponsible Withdrawal from Iraq

by Kori Schake (Research Fellow)

[The Administration's] withdrawal of U.S. forces must have had some other motive than responsibly bringing the war in Iraq to an end...

Get Involved • Contact Us • Maps and Directions