U.S. Government

List of U.S. Government articles

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  Here are three steps we should take in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  U.S. Conducts Counterterrorism Operation in Somalia

  The Complex

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  Gordon Lubold

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  Donnelly: Sean Kay is wrong because, like so many realists, he overvalues realism

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  If Putin ever had to flee Russia, what country might he ask for asylum?

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Sherman (XI): The Confederates I worry about most after the war will be the young men with guns and horses — but no land

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Obama Hints at Legal Rationale for Airstrikes in Syria

  The Cable

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  Colum Lynch

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  The U.S. Needs a New Foreign Policy Agenda for 2016 (A Four-Part Series)

  Shadow Government 2009-2017

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  Kim Holmes, Will Inboden

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  The Top 10 Questions About the World’s Biggest Problems

  Will anyone ever outfox Putin? Why are we still using old solutions to solve the same old Middle East Problems? And where exactly are we going in Afghanistan?

  COLUMN

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  Stephen M. Walt

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  Obama’s true foreign policy dilemma is not what Tom Donnelly thinks it is

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  10 reasons why you shouldn’t vote for a vet

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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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.

  Situation Report

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  Gordon Lubold with Nathaniel Sobel

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  Syria Mission Could Start Easy But Become More Complex

  The Complex

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  Gordon Lubold, Shane Harris, Kate Brannen

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  A Dirty Hyphenated Word

  Nation-building is the only thing that can fix Libya and Syria. So why has President Obama basically ruled it out?

  Argument

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  Suzanne Nossel

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  FP’s Situation Report: Why “Lady Al-Qaeda” is so wanted; American jihadi killed in Syria; CENTCOM’s airstrikes, analyzed; Farewell to a fighting diplomat (Joe Dunford); Bobby Zarate to Kirk’s office; and a bit more.

  Situation Report

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  Gordon Lubold with Nathaniel Sobel

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  Step Away, Do Nothing, Pat Self on Back

  It looks like the Obama administration has found its grand strategy after all.

  Argument

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  Kori Schake