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Analysis
A Transatlantic Approach to Iran
In August 2004, Washington watched with skepticism as European diplomats again tried to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions. On both sides of the Atlantic, there is agreement that a nuclear armed Iran would be a disaster for the region and possibly a last gasp for the Nuclear Nonpr...
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Analysis
Bush’s Policy Endangers U.S. Security
While unexpected, the decision by the Bush administration last month to oppose inspections and verification as part of the Fissile Materials Cutoff Treaty is not surprising. Since taking office, the administration has taken a number of steps that have undermined the ability of...
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Analysis
It’s Time to Bench ‘Team B’; Second-guessing the CIA has led the U.S. Astray
The reports of the Sept. 11 commission and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence missed the real problem facing the intelligence community, which is not organization or culture but something known as the "Team B" concept.
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Analysis
Policy Matters: Educating Congress on Peace and Security
If you think the United States has not adequately adapted its post-Cold War and post-September 11th strategy and institutions for effective engagement with the world, this handbook can serve as a tool to help you in your efforts to communicate with Members of Congress. If you ...
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Analysis
It’s the Guns, Stupid
As the threat of weapons of mass destruction spurs our government to action, a far more insidious threat endangers citizens around the world. The massive proliferation of guns! Gun trafficking has always been President Bush's blind spot in the war on terror. The inherent dange...
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Analysis
Forget WMD -- It’s Conventional Arms That Are Killing GIs And Iraqis
In her Los Angeles Times op-ed, CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl argues that when the United States turned over sovereignty to the new government of Iraq last month, it did so without confronting one of the most pressing problems facing the country: the millions of small arms a...
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AnalysisP.O.W. Abuse, Now Against Our Own Guys
Specialist Sean Baker, formerly of the 438th Military Police Corps, has seizures and takes nine types of prescription medicines daily to combat brain injuries he says he received in the line of duty. Baker's wounds didn't come from enemy combatants, but at the hands of five Am...
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Analysis
Book Review - Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Debunking the Myths and Exposing the Risks of Arms Exports Reform
This volume challenges the current call by reformers in the United States to further dismantle most of the provisions governing the export of weapons.
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Analysis
Military readiness likely to emerge again as campaign issue
In his Army Times op-ed, Winslow Wheeler, CDI Visiting Senior Fellow and veteran Senate staffer, argues that the military readiness shoe President Bush tried to use to stomp the Democrats in the 2000 presidential campaign is now on the other foot.
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Analysis
Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order (Cato Institute Book Forum)
The Cato Institute is hosting a Book Forum on Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order by John Newhouse, CDI Senior Fellow, taking place in Washington, D.C., this Thursday, Nov. 13. Mr. Newhouse, who covered foreign policy for The New Yorker and served in two diff...
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Analysis
Kill the Boeing Tanker Deal
In his recent Defense Week op-ed, Winslow Wheeler, CDI Visiting Senior Fellow, examines U.S. Air Force plans to contract with Boeing for new 767s, arguing that the proposed deal is unwise and a microcosm of broader problems in America’s national security apparatus.
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Analysis
The Proliferation Security Initiative: Naval Interception Bush Style
On May 31, 2003 as part of a speech in Krakow, Poland, President George W. Bush announced a new effort to hinder the unwanted spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Calling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons the 'greatest threat to peace,' Bush said that the United...