The Military as Peacemakers and Enforcers: Military Operations Other Than War in the 1990s

Posted on April 23, 2018 David Gray FootNotes

A quick victory in Iraq validated military professionals’ post-Vietnam War emphasis on warfighting using decisive force. Operation DESERT STORM represented the services’ successful intellectual and physical efforts to reorient from graduated escalation strategies and guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Vietnam to fighting a potential high intensity conventional war ...
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GOP Foreign Policy Opinion in the Trump Era

Posted on April 20, 2018 Colin Dueck E-Notes

The Trump presidency has produced a continual stream of sweeping, yet misinformed, analysis regarding the internal state of the Republican Party. Amongst journalistic, academic, and political commentators today, the condition of opinion within the GOP regarding foreign policy issues is regularly misunderstood. Here are several prevalent and mistaken ...
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Russian and American De-Confliction Efforts in Syria: What’s the Endgame in the Civil War?

Posted on April 19, 2018 Col. Robert E. Hamilton Russia Foreign Policy Papers

The war in Syria is reaching a decisive point. As the campaign against ISIL winds down, the battle for influence over the final settlement in Syria is heating up. This larger war—geopolitically more consequential than the campaign against ISIL—is characterized by shifting and sometimes surprising coalitions of states and ...
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Defeating the ISIS Nostalgia Narrative

Posted on April 18, 2018 Colin P. Clarke, Haroro J. Ingram After the Caliphate Project E-Notes

As ISIS lost a significant portion of its territory over the past year, the international community has heralded the collapse of the caliphate. It is now clear that the celebration was premature. Rather than signal a death knell, ISIS’ conventional collapse—while taking a devastating toll on its resources and ...
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The 2016 Coup Attempt in Montenegro: Is Russia’s Balkans Footprint Expanding?

Posted on April 12, 2018 Dimitar Bechev Russia Foreign Policy Papers

On October 15, 2016, the day before Montenegro’s hotly contested legislative elections, Podgorica authorities thwarted an alleged coup attempt. Asserting that the conspirators aimed to prevent Montenegro’s imminent NATO accession, they blamed Moscow as the main instigator. Reflecting on the long-standing historical ties between Russia and Montenegro—and particularly their ...
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April 24, 2018 Geopoliticus

Armenia after Sargsyan’s Resignation: A New Hope?

Nelli Babayan

After 11 consecutive days of peaceful protests dubbed “Merzhir Serzhin” (Reject Serzh), Armenians have finally managed to dethrone Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan. Widespread jubilation across Armenia’s cities followed the announcement of his resignation. Sargsyan’s ouster on April 23 does ...

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April 17, 2018 Baltic Bulletin

Developments in Baltic Defense since Trump Took Office

Lukas Milevski

The Baltic states have felt themselves to be in something of a defense crisis since the Russian annexation of Crimea, which revealed Russia’s revisionist intentions to the extent that even Western Europeans began to take them seriously. While all ...

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April 17, 2018 E-Notes

A Rational Syria Strategy

Adam Garfinkle

Some decades ago already the phrase “CNN effect” was coined, referring to a concern that the emotional power of pictures might generate such popular sentiment as to overwhelm the calm and careful deliberations of governments during crisis decision points ...

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April 12, 2018 Geopoliticus

Departure of Bossert Reveals “Boltonization” of National Security Council

Jack Thomas Tomarchio

Yesterday, Thomas P. Bossert, the President’s Homeland Security Advisor, abruptly resigned from his post. It came as a surprise to homeland security observers and to Bossert himself. Speaking at the Cipher Brief’s 2018 Threat Conference in Sea Island, Georgia, ...

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April 11, 2018 The American Review of Books, Blogs, and Bull

The Holocaust in Public Memory

Jeremy Black

The Holocaust was the moral death of Europe, one with which it has since struggled to cope. A continent whose leaders saw themselves at the cutting edge of history, destined to rule over much of the world, was horribly ...

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April 10, 2018 Russia Political Economy Project

Corruption and Power in Russia

Noah Buckley

Corruption has been a constant factor in Russia’s political economy. From one era to another, the multifarious forms of corruption continue to pervade Russian politics despite sincere and insincere efforts to fight it. The election of Vladimir Putin as ...

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The Military as Peacemakers and Enforcers: Military Operations Other Than War in the 1990s

GOP Foreign Policy Opinion in the Trump Era

Russian and American De-Confliction Efforts in Syria: What’s the Endgame in the Civil War?

Defeating the ISIS Nostalgia Narrative

The 2016 Coup Attempt in Montenegro: Is Russia’s Balkans Footprint Expanding?

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