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Early Withdrawal Will Lead to More Terrorism

America has a new counterterrorism policy: retrenchment.

January 10, 2019 — Seth G. Jones, sdaniels, via The Wall Street Journal
Opinion / Strategy

Bad Idea: Armed Drones in West Africa

While the use of drones in West Africa is an operational tool, Alice Hunt Friend contends that they will make the U.S. counterterrorism efforts harder to acquire.

December 11, 2017 — Alice Hunt Friend, defense360
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