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Analysis and Commentary

Needed: A Political Strategy after the Deal Collapses

by Joel D. Rayburnvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, April 16, 2012

Observers rightly say that the Afghanistan campaign will not result in a sustainable outcome without a political strategy to accompany the military operations NATO is conducting...

Analysis and Commentary

To stay, to quit, or to soldier on in Afghanistan?

by Thomas H. Henriksenvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, April 16, 2012

In a twist on the dilemma faced by Shakespeare’s Hamlet—“to be or not to be”—Americans now ask themselves the question in light of several recent setbacks in Afghanistan: to stay or to get out...

Analysis and Commentary

The Great Retreat

by Russell A. Bermanvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, April 16, 2012

As the 2014 promised departure from Afghanistan draws nearer, popular support for the war is dwindling, and not only in the United States...

Analysis and Commentary

Under Eastern Eyes

by Charles Hillvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, April 16, 2012

When Alexander the Great led soldiers of the world’s sole superpower into Afghanistan he did not fulfill the requirements of today’s counterinsurgency doctrine...

Analysis and Commentary

Nothing Left

by Fouad Ajamivia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, April 16, 2012

The Afghans want us to stay, so it is long past time to haul up the gear and leave the Hindu Kush to its ways...

Analysis and Commentary

Bounding Tyrants, Childlike Kings

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Monday, April 16, 2012

In an impressive show of bayag—the word for testicular fortitude in the Tagalog language—the Philippines sent its biggest naval warship to confront Chinese fishing and surveillance vessels operating illegally in waters just off the country’s northwest coast...

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Consolidating Gains and Hardening the Afghan State Against Organized Crime and Enemy Subversion

by H. R. McMastervia The Caravan
Monday, April 16, 2012

The mass murder attacks against our own nation on September 11, 2001 and subsequent attacks on other nations including the U.K., Spain, and India, demonstrate clearly the importance of denying transnational terrorist organizations access to the resources, freedom of movement, safe havens, and ideological space they need to plan, organize, and conduct these attacks.

Analysis and Commentary

A Passage to India-Pakistan Peace

by Michael J. Boskinvia Wall Street Journal
Sunday, April 15, 2012

A free trade agreement would give each country a stake in the other's success...

Analysis and Commentary

Can the Afghan war be won?

by Fouad Ajamivia Advancing a Free Society
Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Caravan project of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order has put together a round table about the vital question of America’s options in Afghanistan...

Jack Goldsmith

Goldsmith discusses what might have happened if Obama had been president on 9/11 on Daily Beast TV

via Daily Beast
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Jack Goldsmith, a member of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law at the Hoover Institution, the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University, and the author, most recently, of Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11, notes that when it comes to counterterrorism there is little difference between the Obama and Bush administrations and that Obama's continuation of his predecessor's policies is a sign of victory for US constitutional government.

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