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Iraq, Afghanistan provide lessons on US weapons flows

While not analogous to Ukraine, recent American combat experiences can be informative as we consider sending advanced systems to Kyiv. There are a host of reasons, backed by historical examples, why sending more and more advanced weapons into Ukraine will not be a panacea. In fact, sending them might boomerang …

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Mission Creep? How the US role in Ukraine has slowly escalated

The Biden team has quietly blown past red lines of involvement. The question now, is how far is it willing to go. When the United States involves itself militarily in a conflict, it often finds it hard to get itself out, let alone avoid deep entanglements that blow well past …

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Sisi discusses with CIA director ways to boost security and intelligence cooperation

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed with US Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns in Cairo on Monday the ways to boost security and intelligence cooperation between the two countries. According to the Egyptian Presidency, El-Sisi and Burns also exchanged views about the recent developments in several international and regional issues of …

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