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Chechnya, like Dagestan, like Syria, like Pakistan, like Iraq, like Afghanistan, all these places where there's been tumult and upheaval and conflict and regional dislocation, continue to become basically the recruiting grounds for people who have a very strong sense of grievance. And again, we're talking small numbers of people.

April 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, National Public Radio

Chechnya has a very brutal history. You can just imagine two young Chechen boys growing up [in that violence] and then being dropped in the United States…And here they are in their 20s, a classic time for people to search for identity.

April 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, Christian Science Monitor

How U.S. Cities Can Protect Themselves Against Bombing Attacks

April 17, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

A Possible "Off Ramp" in North Korea

April 16, 2013, James E. Goodby

The Stakes for America in the Race to Replace Karzai

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

The Boston Marathon Bombing and Our Post-Terrorist Incident Drill

April 16, 2013, Paul R. Pillar

North Korea and Policy Priorities for the United States

April 15, 2013

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North Korea and Nuclear-Armed Missiles: Calming the Hyperbole

April 15, 2013, Steven Pifer

The Dangerous Price of Ignoring Syria

April 15, 2013, Vali Nasr

At a Dollar a Shot, Lasers Bring Down Missiles and Costs

April 14, 2013, Peter W. Singer

[Kim Jong Un] is trying to show that he has a strategic mind, that the military stands behind him and that no one stands against him.

April 13, 2013, Kongdan Oh, Washington Post

Al Qaeda Comeback

April 12, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Getting Kim Jong Un's Attention

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

Which Military Opinions To Listen To

April 11, 2013, Paul R. Pillar

Counterinsurgency, Counternarcotics, and Illicit Economies in Afghanistan: Lessons for State-Building

April 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Big Hurdles Ahead for Arms Control

April 9, 2013, Steven Pifer

I hope that when the exercise winds down in a few weeks, they [the North Koreans] will wind down the rhetoric and we will be in a better place than we are now.

April 5, 2013, Evans J.R. Revere, The Guardian (UK)

I think the steps taken by the Obama administration are prudent and the minimum necessary to send a message to [North Korea] and our allies that we are prepared to defend them.

April 5, 2013, Evans J.R. Revere, The Guardian (UK)

The World of North Korea's Kim Jong-un

April 4, 2013, Kongdan Oh

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

April 3, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

The danger here is that South Korea, with U.S. moral support, retaliates and then North Korea feels that it needs to counter-retaliate; China doesn’t control it and so it’s a vicious circle.

April 2, 2013, Richard C. Bush III, Washington Times

Negotiating with Iran: How Best to Reach Success

April 1, 2013

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Tensions on the Korean Peninsula

April 1, 2013, Evans J.R. Revere

Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, Policy and Arms Control: Issues for the United States, NATO and Russia

March 2013, Steven Pifer

Examining North Korea’s Recent Heated Rhetoric

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