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NOV 10, 2009 Podcast

Emerging Challenges in a Network World

In an increasingly interconnected world, soft power and engagement with all the world's players will become increasingly important--and that includes talking to Hamas and the ...

NOV 6, 2009 Podcast

Paying Others to Fight Our Battles

Private contractors bring important skills to tasks outside the capability or mission of military personnel, but they are not accountable to the government or American ...

Training Afghan soldiers in Kandahar

NOV 6, 2009 Podcast

Afghanistan Briefing

"Afghanistan makes Iraq look easy," says U.S. Army Colonel (Ret.) Senior Fellow Dr. McCausland. His comprehensive and evenhanded briefing analyzes the situation on the ...

<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thefalloftheberlinwall1989.JPG" target=_blank>The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989</a>.<br> Unknown photographer, public domain.

NOV 5, 2009 Article

The Opening of the Berlin Wall: A 20-Year Retrospective

The sudden downfall of the Communist regimes in 1989 and the opening of the Berlin Wall are sometimes depicted as the inevitable result of a lengthy ...

Matryoshka. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dm-set/3338663928/">Sarah</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 5, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Persistence of Eurasia

Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States must confront the reality that Eurasia remains a very Russia-centric region.