The Atlantic Council
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 12:42
As Americans flock to the polls today, predictions increasingly favor Republicans to win the 2014-midterm elections. Although Democrats hold out hope to retain control of the Senate, the odds in Republicans’ favor encourage serious thought about how the policy choices of a Republican Senate may or may not differ from the policies of today’s Democratic Senate.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 12:40
More than two months into the US and coalition air campaign, Obama administration officials and members of the US military’s senior leadership are confident that “Operation Inherent Resolve” is having the intended effect against the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL). The air strikes that began in Iraq on August 8 and the strikes that began in Syria on September 23, according to the Pentagon, are forcing Islamic State militants to adapt their battlefield tactics, disperse units into smaller and more mobile teams, and change the way it behaves as an offensive force.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 07:34
Early indications suggest that the administration's longstanding bias toward minimal effort on Syria—a bias reinforced and sustained politically by widespread public indifference—remains essentially in place.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 10:05
The longer the United States ignores the growing
threat of these jihadist groups, the more difficult it will
be to roll back, as recent events in Iraq have shown. Yet,
addressing it solely through a narrow counterterrorism
strategy would exacerbate the problem