Defense & Security
Breaking down Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy
Ten years after the United States and its allies forced Iraqi troops to withdraw from Kuwait, Saddam Hussein remains in power — and an international threat — despite UN inspections, military punishment, and continued economic sanctions. One of the first priorities of President George W. Bush’s administration will be to review America’s policy toward Saddam.
On the tenth anniversary of Iraq’s humiliation in the Gulf War, a panel of Brookings foreign policy experts will examine what has occurred in the past decade and what is likely to happen in the future in light of a new American president taking office, other nations increasingly ignoring the sanctions, concerns that Iraq is again seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and the changing dynamics of the Middle East.
Among the issues the Brookings experts will address are:
- Is it time to lift or modify the sanctions? What would replace them?
- What lessons has the American military learned from the Gulf War?
- With UN inspectors no longer in Iraq, is there any hope that Saddam can be prevented from acquiring nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons?
- How has the war altered America’s relationship with Iran and other nations in the region?
Agenda
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February 21
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Moderator
LJLoren Jenkins Senior Foreign Editor, <br>National Public Radio -
Panelists
JMLJames M. Lindsay
Meghan L. O’Sullivan Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project - Harvard Kennedy School @OSullivanMeghan
Michael E. O’Hanlon Director of Research - Foreign Policy, Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy @MichaelEOHanlon
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