The Islamic State's Terrifying Strategy -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- A centerpiece of President Obama's strategy for defeating the Islamic State is mobilizing tribal fighters to join the Iraqi military in retaking Anbar and other Sunni-dominated provinces. But new research shows the jihadists have been working since 2009 to gut the very Sunni tribal leadership on which Obama's rollback depends -- making the U.S. campaign much more difficult.
U.S. strategists want to create a "national guard" version of the tribal militia known as the "Awakening," which in 2007 and 2008 crushed al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor of the Islamic State. But overlooked evidence shows that the jihadists have worked systematically to destroy the Awakening and assassinate tribal leaders who might challenge their rule.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 21, 2014
ISIS: The Unstoppable Juggernaut -- Paul D. Shinkman, US News and World Report
Are Mass Killings by IS Group Genocide? -- Sharon Behn, VOA
How ISIS Corporatized Terror -- Cam Simpson, Bloomberg Businesweek
The war against Islamic State: The tide may slowly be turning against the jihadists in Iraq and Syria -- The Economist
Seven unlikely events in the fight against Islamic State, and their likely outcomes -- Aki Peritz and Tara Maller, Reuters
US, Turkey still not in sync on Syria -- Deb Riechmann, AP
Bashar al-Assad looks more comfortable than ever. -- Jeremy Bowen, New Statesman
Q. and A.: The Difficulties in Reaching a Nuclear Agreement With Iran -- David Sanger, NYT
Ebola crisis in Liberia: 'One in two workers now jobless' -- BBC
Putin Would Risk Everything In A War With Ukraine -- Martin van Creveld, Worldcrunch
Ukraine crisis: Will war return? -- BBC
Russia’s lackluster economy means Putin simply can’t afford a new Cold War -- Geoffrey Smith, Fortune
Healing Colombia's Scars of War -- Wesley Tomaselli, OZY
Why the Surveillance State Lives On -- Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
What the War Classics Teach Us about Fighting Terrorists -- Colonel (Ret.) Philip Lisagor, Cicero magazine
Left or right: whose side is The Hunger Games on? -- The Telegraph
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