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Political Warfare Is Back with a Vengeance
Raphael S. Cohen, Linda Robinson @RobinsonL100
Apr 13, 2018
The National Interest
The United States' principal adversaries are fighting and gaining ground by employing a host of tactics short of all-out war. This form of warfare, once called political warfare, is back with a vengeance, empowered by new tools and techniques.
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Gaza Strip
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How Salafism's Rise Threatens Gaza
Colin P. Clarke @ColinPClarke
Oct 11, 2017
Foreign Affairs
The rise of hardline Salafism is a worrisome trend in Gaza, where Salafists could surpass Hamas as the most dangerous threat to other Palestinians and the state of Israel. Such a result could signal the sabotage of yet another chance for progress in one of the world's longest-running conflicts.
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Military Strategy
commentary
Managing Chaos in an Era of Great Power Competition
Austin Long, Linda Robinson @RobinsonL100, Seth G. Jones
Sep 5, 2017
War on the Rocks
As Washington policymakers seek a new strategic course, U.S. national security strategy should not neglect the importance of competition short of armed conflict. A U.S. strategy that incorporates this perspective from the beginning could manage chaos at a reasonable cost.
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Asymmetric Warfare
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Five Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza
Raphael S. Cohen
Aug 3, 2017
War on the Rocks
After a decade of operating against Hamas in Gaza, the Israel Defense Force has learned many lessons about urban warfare against hybrid adversaries. The last confrontation teaches five basic lessons that apply well beyond Gaza.
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Low-intensity Conflict
essay
The Price of Peace
Jun 24, 2015
Groundbreaking analysis by a team of RAND economists and policy experts reveals how much Israelis and Palestinians stand to lose from the enduring conflict, and how much they could gain in peace.
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Low-intensity Conflict
commentary
War or Peace? Putting a Price on the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Charles P. Ries, C. Ross Anthony
Jun 9, 2015
Newsweek
Today, more than 90 percent of Israelis and Palestinians were born after 1948 and have known nothing other than some version of the impasse. Both sides could be better off with a stable two-state solution. Prolonging the impasse for another generation would have real costs.
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Global Security
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Greater Disorder Does Not Imply Greater Insecurity
Ali Wyne @Ali_Wyne
Jan 7, 2015
The American Interest
President Obama observed in June that the world is less violent than it has ever been. While his proposition may seem incongruous with the present crises across Eurasia, the evidence suggests that the world is indeed becoming more secure.
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Peacekeeping and Stability Operations
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The Foreign Policy Essay: The Limits of Small Footprints
Stephen Watts
Mar 31, 2014
Lawfare
The history of “small-footprint approaches” should be sobering. It suggests that such approaches are good at preventing allied governments from losing against rebels, but are not very good at actually winning wars.
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Asymmetric Warfare
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New RAND Report Updates, Expands Research on Successful Counterinsurgency Approaches
Sep 27, 2013
When a country is threatened by an insurgency, what efforts give its government the best chance of prevailing? A new update to a RAND 2010 study expands the data set of 30 insurgencies to 71 and compares all 71 of them begun and completed worldwide since World War II.
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Low-intensity Conflict

Political Warfare Is Back with a Vengeance

How Salafism's Rise Threatens Gaza

Managing Chaos in an Era of Great Power Competition

Five Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza

The Price of Peace

War or Peace? Putting a Price on the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse

Greater Disorder Does Not Imply Greater Insecurity

The Foreign Policy Essay: The Limits of Small Footprints

New RAND Report Updates, Expands Research on Successful Counterinsurgency Approaches

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