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Countering terrorism: why Iraq matters

In 2003, Coalition forces decisively destroyed the Iraqi Army and toppled Saddam Hussein. The military mission had been accomplished, but what was left? While the decisive phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) was relatively well …

Post-NATO Afghanistan: coping, but only just

The political and military environment in Afghanistan remains extremely challenging. While recent international attention has been drawn to the rise of the ‘Islamic State’ group in Iraq and Syria and by the Greek financial crisis, …

Iraq: an avoidable catastrophe?

The unfolding humanitarian and political disaster in Iraq and Syria is ultimately a consequence of confusion, impetuosity, a preoccupation with tactical issues at the expense of strategic ones, and an ignorance of the political, communal, …