We are good at winning wars and generally bad at what comes after. Far from a partisan observation; this is a pattern with receipts. We removed Saddam Hussein in three weeks and then spent eight years ...

Jeffrey Mankoff is deputy director and senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Russia and Eurasia Program. He is the author of Russian Foreign Policy: The Return ...

Dr. Henri J. Barkey is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the former Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor at Lehigh University.

Scott Forney is the President of the Electromagnetic Systems (EMS) Group of General Atomics. Mr. Forney joined GA in November 2007. Under his guidance, EMS Group continues as a leading Department of ...

Dr. Wakar Uddin is Rohingya Muslim, born in Maungdaw, Arakan state, Burma/Myanmar. He is a professor at Penn State University, Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union, Founding Chairman of Burmese ...

Dr. Robert Farley teaches at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses on military doctrine and technology, with a concentration ...

Sultan Barakat is the Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a Senior Fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has acted as principal investigator on ...

Mireya Solís is co-director and the Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies in the Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies. An expert in Japan’s foreign economic policies, Solís earned a doctorate ...

Ghaith al-Omari is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute and the former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine. Previously, he served in various positions within the ...

Ferry de Kerckhove entered the Canadian Foreign Service in 1973. His postings included Iran, NATO and Moscow. At Headquarters he worked on European Affairs, in Policy Planning and on economic ...

Rudolph Atallah is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Africa Center. Before retiring in 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after twenty-one years of service in the US Air ...

Frank Montoya Jr. is a retired FBI special agent and senior executive with extensive experience in counterintelligence matters. In addition to running FBI field offices in Honolulu and Seattle in the ...