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February 10, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Military Intervention, Drones, and al-Qaeda.

Shaun Waterman, “Drones Over U.S. Get OK By Congress,” Washington Times, February 7, 2012. The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviati…

Explosion Afghanistan

July 17, 2017

Digital Policy
Report Watch Vol. III: State Control of Online Content

A look at the latest digital and cyber scholarship: computational propaganda, trolls in China, and internet censorship.

Note-taking

August 8, 2014

Asia
Kerry Returns to Afghanistan; Women’s Rights Remain in Peril

This year marks a significant moment for Afghanistan: with the recent presidential election and the U.S. withdrawal of troops, the country will undergo both political and security transitions. Howeve…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks next to Afghan presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul, Afghanistan, following the signing of a deal to form a national unity government (Courtesy Reuters/Omar Sobhani).

February 7, 2013

Defense and Security
John Brennan’s Confirmation Hearing and Targeted Killings

Today, John Brennan, White House homeland security adviser and deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism, will appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) to discuss …

Brennan and Feinstein

July 12, 2007

Iraq
Biddle: Stick With ‘Surge’ or Pull Out of Iraq Now

Stephen Biddle, CFR’s top military analyst on Iraq, says the only analytically sound alternatives in Iraq are to either pull out now, or to stick with a revamped “surge.”