ISIS Falling Apart from Within March 12, 2015 The Center’s Policy Director, Laicie Heeley made an appearance on MSNBC’s The Ed Show Monday, March 9th to discuss the current state of ISIS and Boko Haram’s recent announcement pledging allegiance to the organization that has been spreading terror throughout Iraq and Syria. “Boko Haram’s pledge of […]
The Death of a General in Afghanistan
Council for a Livable World Board Member Matthew Hoh talked with Ezra Klein on MSNBC about the insider attack that killed a US general in Afghanistan. Why, Matthew asked, are we keeping thousands of troops in harms’ way in Afghanistan when we don’t even know what our mission is there?
Leading National Security Organizations Applaud Bipartisan House Vote to Check Military Engagement in Iraq
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 […]
