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Parent topics
- Obama administration [r]: The policy making organization lead by President Barack Obama. [e]
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. [e]
- Under Secretary of Defense for Policy [r]: Principal staff assistant and adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense for all matters on the formulation of national security objectives and the integration and oversight of U.S. Department of Defense policy and plans to achieve national security objectives; sometimes described as running an internal "think tank" [e]
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. [e]
- Center for a New American Security [r]: A fairly new national security think tank, the founders of which are now in the Obama administration; some of the new senior members have significant field counterinsurgency experience [e]
- Michelle Flournoy [r]: U.S. strategic analyst; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Obama administration; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; cofounder of the Center for a New American Security; Expert panel, Iraq Study Group [e]
Subtopics
- International Institute for Strategic Studies [r]: A UK-based think tank with offices in the US and Singapore, founded in 1958; publishes The Military Balance, Strategic Survey, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Strategic Comment [e]
- United States Institute of Peace [r]: A quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization (QUANGO) created by the United States, to serve as a resource in peace operations and conflict resolution [e]
- Iraq War [r]: (2003-2011) Invasion and occupation of Iraq by a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein who was accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (which were never found). [e]
- Iraq War, Surge [r]: A U.S. campaign, announced on 10 January 2007, to flood the Baghdad area with at least 20,000 more American troops, to improve security to a point where the Iraqi Security Forces could protect the population [e]
- Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures [e]
- Counterproliferation [r]: The set of activities that detect and monitor the threat of weapons of special concern against one's own nation and one's allies. [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. [e]
- House Armed Services Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for Strategic and International Studies [r]: A bipartisan U.S. think tank that does research and policy recommendations in international affairs, headquartered in Washington, D.C. [e]