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Commentary

Gone and Forgotten?

Mark N. Katz, May 2, 2012

One year ago, on May 2, 2011, the elite U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 unit killed al-Qaeda leader Osama ...

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Commentary

Will the Kandahar Killings Hasten U.S. Withdrawal?

Middle East In Focus, March 16, 2012

The day that U.S. and international forces leave Afghanistan may have drawn nearer. After weeks of bad PR resulting ...

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Commentary

Afghanistan Ten Years Later

Middle East In Focus, October 12, 2011

The tenth anniversary of the beginning of US military action in Afghanistan has provided an opportunity for looking ...

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Journal Essay

Drone Warfare: Blowback from the New American Way of War

Leila Hudson, Colin S. Owens, Matt Flannes, Fall 2010

Targeted killing by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, has become the central element of U.S. counterterror operations ...

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Commentary

Reaction to Announcement of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Timely Articles, June 27, 2011

President Barack Obama announced last week the withdrawal of 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year ...

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Commentary

Will the Taliban Rise Again?

Mark N. Katz, April 1, 2011

Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989; the Marxist regime Moscow had been supporting fell in 1992.  The ...

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