If we are honest about our efforts to prevent serious conflict, our track record is weak, to say the least. We fail to prepare for strategic discontinuities. We embrace deals that rest on sand. We often only seriously begin to address threats to our country’s population and material wealth when we no longer have the 
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America’s Chamberlain? Obama and the Challenge of American Power
By: David Law | Thursday, November 13th, 2014Countering ISIS: A Special Kind of Insurgency
By: Zenonas Tziarras | Wednesday, September 10th, 2014It is commonplace these days to refer to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām (i.e. Greater Syria) – henceforth, ISIS – as the greatest threat to regional, international, and for some countries, even national security. As a product of mergers between smaller Islamist groups (e.g. an al-Qaeda affiliated Iraqi group) in the aftermath of
Proposed resumption of US military training to Indonesia draws outrage, controversy
By: Jessica Teeple | Tuesday, June 8th, 2010President Obama is expected to travel to Indonesia in the near future to discuss, among other topics, renewing US-backed military training for the Indonesian special forces unit, the Kopassus (“Komando Pasukan Khusus” or “Special Force Command”). Below are five key controversies that continually appear in news reports and commentaries about this topic. Controversy #1: No
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