Today, Council for a Livable World and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation praised an overwhelming vote in the House of Representatives to require approval by Congress of expanded military involvement in Iraq. This was the first congressional expression of view on another potential war in that country.
The Hill Publishes Blog by John Isaacs on the Similarities Between Iraq and Vietnam
Double Reverse With a Twist: Iraq and Vietnam by John Isaacs It happened in Vietnam and it is happening again in Iraq. For a second time. The Vietnam War should have taught us that a large foreign military force can transform a genuine problem into something worse. Yet we repeated that disastrous error in Iraq […]
Defense One Publishes Op-Ed by Lt. General Robert Gard on the Failure of Cooperation Between Security Forces and Governing Institutions in Iraq
The One Thing the U.S. Can’t Train the Iraqi Army To Do by Lt. General Robert Gard The U.S. armed forces have spent considerable time, resources and talent building up and training Iraqi security forces to enable them to maintain a reasonable degree of stability in that war-torn and divided country. Why, then, did tens […]
Separating Iran from Iraq
It would be helpful if international events unfolded like dominoes, one falling into the next in an orderly, linear fashion. But this is rarely the case. Instead, events overlap and new crises spring up before old ones are fully resolved: more similar to a chaotic tower of Jenga blocks than a tidy row of dominoes.
Chemical Weapons Removed from Syria: But to Where?
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced today that the final consignment of Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile has been removed. Operating under the oversight of the OPCW and the UN, the removal process involved over 30 countries and the European Union.
