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George Shultz and Henry Kissinger testify before the US Senate Armed Services Committee
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Let the C.I.A. Do What It Is Supposed to Do
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Red, White And Peaceful: Advancing U.S. Security Through Peaceful Means
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Obama, Not Bush, Is the Master of Unilateral War
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Views from Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (Ret.)
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Airstrikes Can Only Do So Much to Combat ISIS
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The Amoral Nature of the Pawn Strategy
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The Way Of The Strangers: Encounters With The Islamic State
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Security by the Book - The Way Of The Strangers: Encounters With The Islamic State

by Samuel Tadros, Graeme Woodvia Lawfare
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

The Hoover Institution's National Security, Technology and Law Working Group, along with Hoover's Washington, DC office held a discussion with author of The Way of Strangers, Graeme Wood. Hoover working group member and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Benjamin Wittes, along with Samuel Tadros, distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, interviewed Wood, who discussed his definitive, electrifying account of the strategy, psychology, and theology driving the Islamic State.

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The Challenge Of Dawa: Political Islam As Ideology And Movement And How To Counter It

Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Stanford

The Hoover Institution Press today released The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter It by Hoover research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In this free downloadable report, Hirsi Ali argues that the American public urgently needs to be educated about both the ideology of political Islam, dawa, and the organizational infrastructure that Islamists use to inspire, indoctrinate, recruit, finance, and mobilize those Muslims whom they hope to win over to the extremist cause.

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Area 45: US Military

interview with Kori Schake, Bill Whalenvia Area 45
Monday, March 6, 2017

The peaks and valleys of a US military buildup.

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Analysis and Commentary

The Muslim Brotherhood: Terrorists Or Not?

by Mokhtar Awad, Samuel Tadrosvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

It’s complicated. The Islamist group splintered after 2011, and some of its spinoffs are violent.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the thirty-ninth prime minister of Denmark (2000–2009)
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America’s Will To Lead

interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussenvia Uncommon Knowledge
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Former prime minister of Denmark, Anders Rasmussen, on America's indispensable role as the global leader.

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Area 45: US And Russian Relations

interview with Michael McFaul, Bill Whalenvia Area 45
Thursday, February 23, 2017

What to make of US-Russian relations? 

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The Libertarian: The Inevitable Failures Of A Two-State Solution

interview with Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Why dreams of Israeli-Palestinian peace are destined for failure.

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Analysis and Commentary

Vladimir Fomenko, The Only Russian With Known Links To U.S. Political Hacking, Speaks Out

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Vladimir Fomenko has been accused of being deeply involved in Russian hacking of U.S. political institutions. We entered into a correspondence for the purpose of allowing Fomenko to tell his side of the story. Here it is.

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Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005 data found on opte.org
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The Global Network Has Become Dangerously Unstable

by Niall Fergusonvia Boston Globe
Monday, February 20, 2017

The world today is like a giant network on the verge of a cataclysmic outage.

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Paul Gregory: Democrats Heart Ru$$ia

interview with Paul R. Gregoryvia The John Batchelor Show
Monday, February 20, 2017

Hoover Institution fellow Paul Gregory discusses his Forbes article "No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists."

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