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

February 10, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Arm the Syrian Rebels. Now.

February 8, 2013, Michael Doran and Salman Shaikh

A Moderate Plan for Additional Defense Budget Cuts

January 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Possible Scope and Conditions for Information-Sharing and Confidence-Building Measures Regarding Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe

February 7, 2013, Steven Pifer

Crisis in Mali and North Africa: Regional Dynamics and International Priorities

February 6, 2013

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Avoiding Armageddon

America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

2013, Bruce Riedel

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

Senator Hagel and Nuclear Weapons

January 30, 2013, Steven Pifer

Strangeness at Guantanamo

January 29, 2013, Paul R. Pillar

What Cutting Defense Really Means

January 29, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

The Evolution of Joint Special Operations Command and the Pursuit of al Qaeda in Iraq: A Conversation with General Stanley A. McChrystal

January 28, 2013

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The Opportunities and Challenges of the Coming Domestic Drone Boom

January 28, 2013, Peter W. Singer

The U.S. Should Take a Gradual Approach to Women in Combat

January 25, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Thank the French, Don't Bill Them

January 25, 2013, Marvin Kalb

It’s Called the Vietnam Syndrome, and It’s Back

January 22, 2013, Marvin Kalb

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

January 21, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

An Obama Doctrine on New Rules of War

January 17, 2013, Peter W. Singer and Thomas Wright

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Right-Sizing Defense Budget Cuts

January 17, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Chaos in Kabul

January 17, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Don't Rush Out of Afghanistan

January 9, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Flexible Thinking Is Key for Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense

January 7, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Defense Spending and U.S. National Security Strategy

January 7, 2013

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Defense Spending: Cut Out of the Conversation

January 4, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Pentagon Looks to Fix "Pervasive Vulnerability" in Drones

December 31, 2012, Noah Shachtman

Defense Cuts, Big and Small

December 28, 2012, Michael E. O'Hanlon