Author: Stephen D. Biddle, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy

July 29, 2014

Evaluating U.S. Options for Iraq

In his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Stephen Biddle assesses the U.S. government's options for responding to the advances made by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq. 

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A Strategy for Defeating ISIS in Syria and Iraq 

Author: Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies

July 29, 2014 

In his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Max Boot advocates for a prudent and limited deployment of American trainers, special operators, air controllers and intelligence agents to mobilize indigenous opposition to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). 

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