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January 24, 2007
Will the Surge Succeed?
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President Bush's announcement of the deployment of more troops to Iraq has come under fire from several quarters. Nevertheless, the White House is confident that the troop "surge" together with new generals and a new strategy can help quell the violence in Iraq and buy time for political progress to be made. Some of the key elements of the new approach were recommended by Andrew Krepinevich in his influential Foreign Affairs article "How to Win in Iraq" a year and a half ago. The war in Iraq is not a lost cause, he argued, but even a successful counterinsurgency campaign will be long, difficult, and costly.
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How Washington Learned to Stop Worrying and Love India's Bomb
January 10, 2007
In December, President George W. Bush signed a law that allows the United States to trade civilian nuclear material and technology with India, reversing decades of U.S. protestations over India's flouting of the global nonproliferation regime in a bid for a new strategic partnership. . . . Read more
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Trouble in Palestine
December 20, 2006
As violence escalated last week among factions competing for power in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suddenly announced early elections. Whether Abbas' Fatah party can unseat the radical Hamas remains unclear, as does the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. . . . Read more
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Tenacious R&D
December 6, 2006
China has just overtaken Japan as the world's second-largest spender on research and development, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports — and its efforts are furrowing brows abroad. Yet spending alone might not be enough to overcome China's deep structural problems in this area. . . . Read more
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