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Tag: Iraq

Policy Roundtable 1-1 on the Chilcot Inquiry

September 18, 2016November 20, 2019 By Seth Center, John Bew, James Ellison, William Inboden, Robert Jervis, Louise Kettle, Joshua Rovner

When released in July 2016, The Report of the Iraq Inquiry elicited the familiar reactions to other government post-mortems about a controversial policy.[2] People noted its size and demanded to know what was new. When few ‘sensational’ details emerged, most observers concluded that the report confirmed what they already believed–good and bad.  

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Roundtable 8-7 on Dictators at War and Peace

January 11, 2016September 14, 2020 By Dan Reiter, Alexander B. Downes, H. E. Goemans, Alex Weisiger, Jessica L.P. Weeks

The International Security Studies Forum (ISSF) of H-Diplo is very pleased to provide a roundtable discussion of Dr. Jessica Weeks’s book, Dictators at War and Peace. The book offers an important answer to the centuries-old international relations question as to how the politics within states affect the politics between states? Since at least the Enlightenment,…

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Roundtable 8-6 on Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Conquest

December 14, 2015September 14, 2020 By James McAllister, Adria Lawrence, Peter Liberman, Michael S. Neiberg, Paul K. MacDonald

Voltaire famously observed that “God is always on the side of the big battalions” (5). International relations theorists and diplomatic historians have tended to find Voltaire’s explanation persuasive but, as Paul MacDonald shows in his provocative new book, peripheral conquest during the nineteenth century was a far more complicated endeavor than conventional warfare on the…

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Roundtable 7-20 on Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency

July 20, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

In 2015 the United States faces a number of opportunities to intervene with military force in countries of secondary or even less strategic importance to U.S. policy makers.   President Barack Obama’s completion of the withdrawal of American ground combat troops from Iraq, and plans to draw down U.S. troops from Afghanistan, have not reduced…

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Forum 9 on “What Have We Learned? Lessons from Afghanistan & Iraq.”

July 8, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

After thirteen years of war, the loss of many thousand of lives, and the expenditure of trillions of dollars, what has the United States learned? The answer depends on not only who is asking but when. The story of the Iraq war would have different endings, and morals, if told in 2003, 2006, 2011, or…

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Article Review 35 on “A Recent History of al-Qa’ida”

March 18, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

The dangers of writing about terrorism and terrorist groups, most especially al-Qa’ida, are twofold. The first is that the field is so inundated with punditry and scholarship on the subject that new entrants easily can be lost in the noise; the second is that in order to avoid being lost in the noise the temptation…

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Forum 6 on “Contemporary Military Contracting and the Future: Teeth, Tails, and Concerns.”

March 13, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

Since the start of the twenty-first century, military contractors such as Blackwater (now named Academi), Kellogg, Brown & Root, and SNC Lavalin have become household names in many countries. The reasons for their prominence vary from case to case. One is notoriety. Particular firms hold contracts valued in the millions if not billions of dollars,…

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Roundtable 7-14 on The Pathologies of Power: Fear, Honor, Glory, and Hubris in U.S. Foreign Policy

March 9, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

Why did the United States, despite vigorous public debates over the wisdom of invading Iraq, pursue an ultimately disastrous war with Iraq in 2003? After all, as John Stuart Mill and others have suggested, such debates in the ‘marketplace of ideas’ should surely have led to a solid consensus against such a course. Explaining why…

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Forum 5 on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Report and the United States’ Post-9/11 Policy on Torture

February 16, 2015January 23, 2021 By H-Diplo

It should not be surprising that the long awaited release in December 2014 of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Report on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation did not bring a conclusive end to the debate over the use of torture or enhanced interrogation techniques by the United States.[1] To be sure, John Brennan,…

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Article Review 33 on “Zero dark squared: Does the US benefit from more Special Operations Forces?”

February 10, 2015January 23, 2021 By H-Diplo

Recently, there has been a spate of books dealing with the issue of strategy and its utility. Lawrence Freedman, Colin Gray, Hew Strachan, and Hal Brands have all weighed in with recent works on the tensions between what strategic theory discusses and the practical difficulties in achieving successful results through its use.[1] The growing attention…

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