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ISW Senior Fellow LTG James Dubik (U.S. Army, Ret.), To Deliver Keynote at International Seminar on Military Sciences 27 Jun 2013 | 12:56 am
Contact: Maggie Rackl (202) 293-5550 x205 press@understandingwar.org Lieutenant General James M. Dubik (U.S. Army, Ret.), Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, will deliv...
Syria Update: The Fall of al-Qusayr 7 Jun 2013 | 04:22 am
Download the PDF With the help of thousands of fighters from Hezbollah, Iran, and Iraq, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has achieved one of his most important military victories in the past two year...
Iraq's sectarian crisis reignites as Shi'a militias execute civilians and remobilize 1 Jun 2013 | 10:43 am
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Iraq's sectarian crisis reignites as Shi'a militias execute civilians and remobilize 1 Jun 2013 | 10:19 am
by Jessica Lewis, Ahmed Ali, and Kimberly Kagan Escalating violence in Iraq crossed a new and very dangerous threshold this week. Al Qaeda in Iraq launched a concentrated wave of car-bomb and other...
Syria Update 13-01: Iraq-Syria Overland Supply Routes 9 Mar 2013 | 03:33 am
Syria Update 13-01: Iraq-Syria Overland Supply Routes by Joseph Holliday Sunni insurgents ambushed a convoy of Iraqi and Syrian troops inside Iraq on March 4, 2013, marking the clearest example of s...
The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency to Civil War 6 Mar 2013 | 10:00 am
Contact: Maggie Rackl (202) 293-5550 x205 press@understandingwar.org ISW’s latest report, The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency to Civil War, explains how the Assad regime lost its counterinsurg...
ISW Profiles Free Syrian Army and Affiliates in Wake of Aid Announcement 1 Mar 2013 | 10:00 am
Contact: Maggie Rackl (202) 293-5550 x205 press@understandingwar.org WASHINGTON--As the U.S. looks to support Syria’s opposition in new ways, understanding the composition and structure of the Supr...
The Afghan Endgame- The Weekly Standard 19 Feb 2013 | 08:44 pm
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The Afghan Endgame- The Weekly Standard 19 Feb 2013 | 08:40 pm
By Frederick Kagan and Kimberly Kagan Originally published in The Weekly Standard , February 25, 2013 President Obama’s decision to withdraw another 34,000 troops from Afghanistan over the course of...
Iraq's Return to Bloodshed 11 Feb 2013 | 11:37 pm
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