December 7, 2015
As the details of the hacking of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) became public in 2014 and 2015, the refrain from the press, Congress, and the general public was: how could this happen?…
March 6, 2015
United StatesAliza Litchman is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S.-led coalition has been unsuccessful in halting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (I…
August 15, 2014
United StatesElena Vann is an interdepartmental intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. Once a small, noble state heralded for its democratic values and established after the horrors of the Holocaust, Israel…
April 17, 2015
United StatesAliza Litchman is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The once strong U.S.-Pakistan relationship may be set to expire. Since the Afghan-Soviet war (19…
August 7, 2014
United StatesAmelia M. Wolf is a research associate in the Center for Preventive Action and the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. The focus of this wee…
January 8, 2013
YemenU.S. drone strike policies undermine the nation’s foreign policy objectives and have resulted in the loss of hundreds of innocent civilian lives, according to a report by CFR Douglas Dillon Fellow Mi…
September 15, 2010
Military OperationsLimited military force—using enough force to resolve a problem while minimizing U.S. military deaths, local civilian casualties, and collateral damage—has increased since the end of the Cold War desp…
July 8, 2016
AfghanistanJared Wright is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. President Barack Obama’s recent announcement that 8,400 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan at…
October 23, 2015
United StatesAndrew Kenealy is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations For some in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the ongoing low-level skirmish between Ukrainian…
August 10, 2015
United StatesPatrick Romano is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. If tensions escalate further, the West Bank could erupt in a violent uprising—sometimes referred …
