Military intervention can’t solve the political issues in Iraq By Angela Canterbury August 19, 2014 In his Aug. 12 op-ed column, “The left’s slippery slope,” Richard Cohen attacked the Council for a Livable World and our research organization, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, as “isolationist and selfish.” Our opposition to U.S. military escalation […]

For All The Hype, Does Israel’s Iron Dome Even Work? August 21, 2014 by Dylan Scott As war between Israelis and Palestinians raged in Gaza again in recent weeks, President Barack Obama signed a bill to provide another $225 million to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. But what if the U.S. government is pouring […]

Clinton Charts a Tricky Course in Airing Policy Views August 11, 2014 by Janet Hook Hillary Clinton is walking a political tightrope as she fleshes out her foreign-policy views in advance of a likely 2016 presidential campaign, putting distance between herself and President Barack Obama without personally criticizing her former boss. With Iraq and the […]

U.S Will Arm the Kurds, Provide Air Support Against IS: Galbraith August 8, 2014 by Nicholas Wapshott The United States will break with the Iraqi government of Nouri a-l-Maliki this weekend and provide heavy weapons to the lightly armed forces of the Kurds, who are fighting to defend their capital, Erbil, against the Islamic State […]