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- Safe at Home: A National Security
Strategy to Protect the American Homeland, P.J. Crowley
- Time to Change Course, Caroline Wadhams
- A War We Must End, John Podesta, Ray
Takeyh, and Lawrence J. Korb
- ElBaradei and
Iran, Joseph Cirincione and Ray Takeyh
- Kosovo -- What's at Stake?, Spencer P.
Boyer
- ENOUGH: Northern Uganda,
The ENOUGH Project
- Pakistan's Enduring Challenges, Caroline
Wadhams, Brian Katulis, and Colin
Cookman
- Pakistan: The Next Steps, Caroline
Wadhams & Brian Katulis
- Will Iran Ever Address Key Issues?,
Andrew J. Grotto
- Afghanistan Is Not Iraq, Lawrence J. Korb
and Caroline Wadhams
- Making Our Nation as Safe as it Can Be,
P.J. Crowley
- A Homeland Security Blueprint for Next
Administration, P.J. Crowley
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P.J. Crowley, "Safe at Home: A National Security
Strategy to Protect the American Homeland, the Real Central
Front," Center for American
Progress, February 25, 2008
The Bush administration’s political rhetoric that we are
defeating
terrorists in Baghdad so we do not have to confront them here is
fiction. This is not an either-or proposition. The risk of a terrorist
attack on the United States is on the rise both despite and because of
what we have done over the past seven years. The United States is not
as safe as it should be. We need to reorder our strategic priorities
now.
Click here
to read the full report.
Caroline Wadhams, "Time to Change Course," International Affairs Forum,
February 25, 2008
Despite the worrying trends in Afghanistan, the international community
still has
not made the decision to turn the situation around. The will is not
there. Even for the United States, which has contributed more than $100
billion to the effort and now has 27,000 U.S. troops on the ground,
Afghanistan is not the priority. Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of
the Joints Chiefs of Staff, recently characterized the
administration’s
position perfectly in a hearing before Congress when he stated, "In
Afghanistan, we do what we can. In Iraq, we do what we must."
Click here
to read the full article.
John
Podesta, Ray Takeyh, and Lawrence J. Korb, "A War We Must End," The Washington Post, February 26,
2008
Despite the Democratic presidential candidates' expressed commitment to
ending the war in Iraq,
there is unease among the party's base. Some ardent activists have
suggested that upon election, a new Democratic president will come
under inordinate pressure to sustain the U.S. military
commitment to Iraq, albeit with some modifications. This concern
demonstrates both the difficulty of ending a controversial war and the
necessity of doing so.
Click here
to
read the full article.
Joseph Cirincione and
Ray Takeyh, "ElBaradei is Quietly Managing to Disarm Iran," The Financial Times, February 27, 2008
It is a popular parlour game in Washington's corridors of power and
European chancelleries to deride Mohamed ElBaradei as a quixotic
bureaucrat determined to subvert the western strategy of restraining
Iran's nuclear programme. The latest International Atomic Energy Agency
report suggesting progress has been made by Iran is quietly disparaged
by the Bush administration as another clean pass for the rash
theocracy. The point that Mr ElBaradei's critics miss is that he is
judiciously achieving the goals that they seemingly desire - the
disarmament of the Islamic Republic.
Click here to read the full article.
Spencer
P. Boyer, "Kosovo -- What's at Stake?," The Root, February 26, 2008
The early returns are discouraging for a harmonious transition to
independence for Kosovo. The week following Kosovo's dramatic
declaration of independence saw sporadic violence in both Serbia and
Kosovo, and the international community dividing itself into supporters
and opponents of the declaration. While it's unclear how the situation
will unfold in the weeks and
months ahead, it will certainly be to no one's benefit if the unrest
intensifies and the violence of the 1990's resurfaces.
Click here
to
read the full article.
"ENOUGH
Policy Standard: Northern Uganda," The
ENOUGH Project, February 25, 2008
In northern Uganda, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to stopping
or preventing mass atrocities. But there is an effective common
strategy that can lead to success, and it is a simple one, built on
promoting peace, providing civilian protection, and ensuring punishment
of the perpetrators.
Click here
to
read the full report.
Caroline
Wadhams, Brian Katulis and Colin Cookman, "Pakistan's Enduring
Challenges: Threats to U.S. Security Remain," Center for American Progress,
February 22, 2008
As the dust settles from this past week’s historic elections in
Pakistan and the post-election coalition-building efforts now ongoing
among the victorious opposition political parties, the United States
cannot lose sight of how Pakistan’s leaders tackle the enduring
security challenges that the country faces, including the presence of
Al Qaeda’s leadership within their country’s borders.
Click here
to
read the full article.
Caroline
Wadhams and Brian Katulis, "Pakistan: The Next Steps," Center for American Progress,
February 20, 2008
The results of Pakistan’s February 18 parliamentary elections
continue
to trickle in, but it is now clear that the opposition parties have
summarily defeated the party of President Pervez Musharraf, the
Pakistan Muslim League-Q, and are demanding change. Despite fears of
violence, a population disillusioned with Pakistan’s leaders, and
a
severely restricted pre-election environment, Pakistanis turned out to
vote and made clear that the status quo is no longer acceptable.
Click here
to
read the full article.
Andrew
J. Grotto, "Will Iran Ever Address Key Issues?," Center for American Progress,
February 22, 2008
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei's report on Iran makes it clear
that Iran has no intention of addressing the
most sensitive of the outstanding questions, namely those that are most
closely associated with a nuclear weapons development program. Iran
continues to insist that it never had any such program, and considers
allegations to this effect to be entirely baseless and not worth
addressing. If that's the case, then ElBaradei's transparency process
has exhausted itself and it is time for a third UNSC sanctions
resolution coupled with a real multilateral negotiation process.
Click here
to
read the full article.
Lawrence
J. Korb and Caroline Wadhams, "Afghanistan Is Not Iraq," Center for
American Progress, February 19, 2008
Regardless
of the consequences, the president continues to insist that
Iraq and Afghanistan are the same war. Both countries, he said most
recently in a speech in early February, “are part of the war on
terror.
These aren’t separate wars. They’re part of the same
war.” From this
faulty premise, misguided strategic thinking and misallocated
budgets flow, inevitably leading to flawed military deployment and
decision-making in both conflicts.
Click here
to
read the full article.
Ask The Expert
- P.J. Crowley discusses why we need to re-examine our homeland
security strategy. "We’re almost seven years into this thing
called the war on
terror and we’re long past due for reassessment. Exactly who is
it today who
threatens us? What is it that they’re most likely to target, and
what can we do
about that?"
Congressional Quarterly - P.J.
Crowley says the Center for American Progress' recent report on
homeland security is intended as a guide for the next president. "We don’t think homeland security has
received sufficient emphasis from the Bush administration, so primarily
it’s a blueprint for what the next administration should
consider."
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Restoring America's Military After
Iraq
February 28, 2008
After nearly five years of war in Iraq and seven
in Afghanistan, the
U.S. military is facing a crisis not seen since the end of the Vietnam
War. Equipment shortages, manpower shortfalls, recruiting and retention
problems, and misplaced budget priorities have resulted in a military
barely able to meet the challenges America faces today and dangerously
ill-prepared to handle the challenges of the future.
As operations in Iraq eventually draw to a close,
we must plot a new
strategic direction for our nation’s military. Panelists will
discuss
the ways in which the United States military will need to reform and
reconstitute itself to meet the nation's challenges in the years to
come. The event will also be the official release of 'Restoring
American Military Power: Toward a New Progressive Defense Strategy for
America' by Lawrence Korb and Max Bergmann.
Click here for more
information.
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