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Video: Robert Pape on Capitol Hill

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Panel Summary: Strategy in the Middle East

The following represents a summary of a panel discussion on future directions of U.S. grand strategy which took place on October 13, 2010 as part of the day-long conference Cutting the Fuse: Moving Beyond the War on Terror co-sponsored by … Continue reading

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Mail-Bombs Intercepted

It’s certainly good news that the plot to mail-bomb two Chicago synagogues was thwarted, and particularly good news that the bombs were intercepted so early in the courier route. The coverage of the foiled plot is still a bit confused, … Continue reading

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Juan Williams, Anti-Muslim Bigotry, and Journalism

One of the things getting lost in the Juan Williams debate: the role of journalists. Too many of them, especially opinion journalists, think their job is to voice their casual unconsidered thoughts. They offer themselves simply as the voice of … Continue reading

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Was it the Surge?

The New York Times has a piece, based on the Wikileaks documents, challenging the conventional wisdom that “the surge worked.” It is largely consistent with our position, described in Cutting the Fuse. Basically, while the troop increase was a factor … Continue reading

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Response to Schake

Kori Schake of the Hoover Institute spoke at our “Cutting the Fuse” conference on Capitol Hill, and made (at least) two important criticisms of the argument we make in the book. First, she critiques our causal argument that suicide terrorism … Continue reading

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Robert Pape on Fox News

Professor Pape appeared on Fox News’ “Happening Now.” Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Donald Rumsfeld once proposed that the best metric of success was whether we were killing more terrorists than we were creating. By this metric, the War … Continue reading

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