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1. After the Caliphate: Factors Shaping Continuing Violent Extremism and Conflicts in the MENA Region

2. The United States’ Soft War with Iran

3. Tell Me How This Ends: Military Advice, Strategic Goals, and the “Forever War” in Afghanistan

4. Dangerous Liaisons: Russian Cooperation with Iran in Syria

5. Creating a Real Peace in Afghanistan

6. Iran May be the Threat but Iraq is the Prize

7. ‘Peace’ in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen

8. Achilles’ Heel: Adding Resilience to NATO’s Fragile Missile Shield

9. Iran’s Threat to Saudi Critical Infrastructure: The Implications of U.S.-Iranian Escalation

10. The State of the Fighting in the Afghan War in Mid-2019

11. The Civil Challenges to Peace in Afghanistan

12. The Return of ISIS in Iraq, Syria, and the Middle East

13. The Era of the Gas Mega-Players

14. Settling Kurdish Self-Determination in Northeast Syria

15. Finishing Strong: Seeking a Proper Exit from Afghanistan

16. War by Proxy: Iran’s Growing Footprint in the Middle East

17. Korea, the JCPOA, and the Shifting Military Balance in the Gulf

18. Access for What? Elevating Civilian Protection and Quality Access for Humanitarian Action in Syria

19. Preventing Catastrophe in Afghanistan

20. Iraq After ISIS: The Other Half of Victory Dealing with the Civil Dimension

21. Squaring the Circle Connecting Current Operations to Policy Ambition in Syria

22. What Is the U.S. Trade and Development Agency?

23. The Revolution in Civil-Military Affairs

24. Citizens in Training: Conscription and Nation-building in the United Arab Emirates

25. Military Spending: The Other Side of Saudi Security

26. U.S. Strategy, the JCPOA Iranian Nuclear Arms Agreement, and the Gulf: Playing the Long Game

27. Pakistan’s Gwadar Port: A New Naval Base in China’s String of Pearls in the Indo-Pacific

28. Al Qaeda’s Struggling Campaign in Syria

29. Stability in the Middle East: The Range of Short and Long-Term Causes

30. Developing a Containment Strategy in Syria

31. Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor

32. The Uncertain Iraqi Election: The Need for a New U.S. Strategy

33. The Escalating Conflict with Hezbollah in Syria

34. Hezbollah’s Missiles and Rockets

35. Iran Sanctions at the Halfway Point

36. Don’t Give Up Yet: There’s Still a Chance to Salvage Eastern Syria

37. The U.S. Defense Budget in FY2019: Underlying Trends

38. The Islamic State and the Persistent Threat of Extremism in Iraq

39. The Arab Gulf States and Iran: Military Spending, Modernization, and the Shifting Military Balance

40. After the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Muhammad bin Salman and the Future of Saudi-U.S. Relations

41. Pushing Back against Narrowing Space for Civil Society in Tunisia

42. Changing Attitudes under New and Old Systems

43. Iraqi Stability and the “ISIS War”

44. The Struggle for the Levant: Geopolitical Battles and the Quest for Stability

45. Security Transition in Afghanistan

46. The Civil Transition in Afghanistan: 2014-2016

47. International Shifts and Their Security Impact on the Gulf: Key Trends and Key Numbers

48. Iran, Evolving Threats, and Strategic Partnerships in the Gulf

49. South Asia Regional Dynamics and Strategic Concerns

50. Iraq in Crisis

51. Maritime Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Strategic Assessment

52. Improving the US-GCC Security Partnership: Planning for the Future

53. The Myth or Reality of US Energy Independence

54. THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE Volume III: The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula

55. THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE Volume II: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions

56. THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE Volume I: The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions

57. Iran's Present Day Military Capabilities and Military Aspirations in the Middle East

58. Changing US Security Strategy: The Search for Stability and the "Non-War" against "Non-Terrorism"

59. Violence in Iraq: The Growing Risk of Serious Civil Conflict

60. The Underlying Causes of Stability and Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: An Analytic Survey

61. Somalia Redux? Assessing the New Somali Federal Government

62. Yemen and U.S. Security

63. The US and Iran: Sanctions, Energy, Arms Control, and Regime Change

64. Shaping Iraq's Security Forces US-Iranian Competition Series

65. The Gulf Military Balance Volume II: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions

66. Moving towards Unity: Expanding the Role of the GCC in Gulf Security

67. U.S.-Turkish Relations a review at the beginning of the third decade of the post–cold war era

68. Patterns of Violence in Iraq

69. Energy Risks in North Africa and the Middle East

70. The FY2013 Defense Budget, Sequestration, and the Growing Strategy-Reality Gap

71. Iran and the Gulf Military Balance II: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions

72. Iraq After US Withdrawal: US Policy and the Iraqi Search for Security and Stability

73. Iran and the Gulf Military Balance - I: The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions

74. Energy Risks in North Africa and the Middle East

75. Gulf Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Iranian Challenge

76. The Future of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership

77. U.S. and Iranian Strategic Competition: Iran's Perceptions of its Internal Developments and their Implications for Strategic Competition with the U.S. in the Gulf, Sept. 2010 – March 2011 By

78. An Arms Control Process for the Middle East

79. International Cooperation in Counterterrorism: Redefining the Threat and the Requirement

80. Geopolitics of the Iranian Nuclear Energy Program: But Oil and Gas Still Matter

81. The Gulf Military Balance in 2010

82. The Real Results of the Iraqi Election: By July 2010, in Early 2011, or Years Later?

83. Economic Challenges in Post-Conflict Iraq

84. US Withdrawal and Iraqi Security Forces: The Need for Continuing Aid

85. Options in Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program

86. The Uncertain Politics behind Iraq's Election: Political Controversies and the Formation of a Viable Government

87. Iraq After the Election: Meeting the Challenges of 2010

88. Contexts of Language in Mahmoud Darwish

89. Low Intensity Conflict: Violence Against the Iraqi People

90. Low Intensity Conflict and Nation - Building in Iraq: A Chronology

91. Currents and Crosscurrents of Radical Islamism

92. Meeting the Challenge of a Fragmented Iraq: A Saudi Perspective

93. Iranian Nuclear Weapons? The Options if Diplomacy Fails

94. Iranian Nuclear Weapons? The Uncertain Nature of Iran's Nuclear Programs

95. Iranian Nuclear Weapons? Iran's Missiles and Possible Delivery Systems

96. American Strategic, Tactical, and Other Mistakes in Iraq: A Litany of Errors

97. Iraqi Economic Reconstruction and Development

98. Iraq's Evolving Insurgency and the Risk of Civil War

99. Dividing Iraq: Think Long and Hard First

100. An Attack on Iraq: The Military, Political, and Economic Consequences: Scenario Briefing