Research

Despite the overwhelming media attention given to Homs and Damascus, the ongoing showdown between rebel and regime forces in Aleppo City is rooted in the months-old conflict in Aleppo’s northern countryside.

This backgrounder will review how Israel has responded to threats with what has become a core component of Israeli defense strategy, the world’s first battle-tested, integrated missile defense shield.

In an unprecedented single session of Parliament on August 4th, the Lower House dismissed the Afghan defense & interior ministers, Abdul Rahim Wardak & Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, following successive no-confidence votes.

On June 27, 2012, AEI, ISW, and the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution conducted a one-day crisis simulation that focused on the impact of spillover from the civil war in Syria.

While the Assad regime focuses its efforts on Syrian cities, border regions, and the coastal provinces, rebel groups in Jebel al-Zawiyah have built command-and-control structures and strengthened their offensive capabilities.

This monograph, written by Senior Fellow LTG James Dubik, U.S. Army (Ret.), provides a framework for understanding operational art in counterinsurgency campaigns, particularly those the U.S. and its allies conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This backgrounder provides a technical description of the Turkish RF-4E, the Syrian air defenses, analysis of the differing radar snapshots provided by Syria and Turkey, and analysis of the current situation.

Why hasn’t the State Department designated what U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker called “a group of killers, pure and simple” as a Foreign Terrorist Organization?

This report examines the increasing effectiveness of Syria’s armed opposition, explains how responsible provincial-level military structures have emerged, and considers how uncoordinated external support could compound existing fractures within the opposition.

High-level outreach between the U.S. and Afghan governments and the senior Taliban leaders hiding in Pakistan has caused the various factions in the movement to turn against each other.