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Civil Wars and Syria: Lessons From History

May 22, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Sean Zeigler

Bosnia Lends Clue To Syria Strategy

May 3, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Fund - Don't Cut - U.S. Soft Power

April 30, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Gen. David Petraeus

The Stakes for America in the Race to Replace Karzai

April 16, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Michèle Flournoy

North Korea and Policy Priorities for the United States

April 15, 2013

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Getting Kim Jong Un's Attention

April 11, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki

An American Future Filled with Promise

April 8, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Gen. David Petraeus

America's Care in the Use of Force (and Use of Drones)

April 3, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Examining North Korea’s Recent Heated Rhetoric

March 29, 2013, Strobe Talbott, Richard C. Bush III, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Jonathan D. Pollack

Hamid Karzai, Confused by the U.S.

March 28, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Stephen Biddle

Kandahar and Hope

March 21, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Michèle Flournoy

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March 20, 2013, Ian S. Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon

Weighing U.S. Intervention: Syria v. Congo

February 28, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

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February 28, 2013, Ian S. Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon

Obama Renews Arms-Control Push

February 20, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Steven Pifer

Try Temporary North Korea Sanctions

February 15, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Obama’s Aims to Reduce Nuclear Threat

February 12, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Steven Pifer

The Strategy For Afghanistan

February 11, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

A Record Of Progress: How Afghanistan Improved Under Gen. John Allen

February 10, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

A Moderate Plan for Additional Defense Budget Cuts

January 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

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January 31, 2013, Ian S. Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon

Hagel Defense Nomination Will Pass

January 30, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

State and the Stateswoman: How Hillary Clinton Reshaped U.S. Foreign Policy — But Not the World

January 29, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

What Cutting Defense Really Means

January 29, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

A Stronger Gulf Presence: U.S. Needs Land Bases for Combat Jets

January 21, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon