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The Shape-Shifting Coalition

America's allies in the fight against the Islamic State may seem willing now. But what happens when they want to start bombing Assad?

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The Arab War on Terror

Obama's Middle East allies are signing up for the fight against the Islamic State. But it's not for the reason you think.

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FP’s Situation Report: Easy to hard: the challenges of a Syria airstrike campaign; An Army two-star, demoted; A stealth invasion into Ukraine?; Military Times’ Tobias Naegele resigns; and a bit more.

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The Vice Issue

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FP All-Access EBooks

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Failed States 2013

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The Power Issue

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The Iraq War Diaries

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The War Issue

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Borderlands

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China Decides

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The President and the World

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Who Won the Great Recession?

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Cuban missile crisis

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The 2012 Failed States Index – Interactive Map and Rankings

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Ivory Tower

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Once Upon a Time

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