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November 22, 2010

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Guest Post: AQAP and Yemen

Members of Yemen’s U.S-trained counter-terrorism force raid a house during field training near Sanaa I’ve been busy so I enlisted Marisa Porges to guest post today.  Marisa is a former internationa…

Guest Post: AQAP and Yemen

February 1, 2011

Defense and Security
Pakistan’s Growing Nuclear Arsenal

Armed soldiers stand guard outside Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi. (Faisal Mahmood/courtesy Reuters) The news coming out of Egypt has overshadowed another important story, the growth of …

Armed soldiers stand guard outside Pakistan’s army headquarters in Rawalpindi

May 13, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Will We Come to Regret the Raid on Abbottabad?

A policeman walks in front of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. (Faisal Mahmood/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Actions, even virtuous ones, have consequences. Sometimes those consequences a…

A policeman walks in front of the compound where al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad.

July 29, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
The Successor to Prince Saud?

An interesting royal decree from Saudi Arabia this past week suggests who may finally succeed Saud bin Faisal as foreign minister. Saud, son of the late King Faisal (who ruled 1964-1975) has been fo…

August 29, 2011

United States
What Should the White House Do After a Pakistan-based Terrorist Attack?

Pakistani soldier Rasheed holds a rocket launcher while standing in a bunker on a mountain in Sadda on July 6, 2010 (Mian Khursheed/Courtesy Reuters). In his 2006 autobiography, Pakistani President …

What Should the White House Do After a Pakistan-based Terrorist Attack?