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Continue on for information on the new CNAS ISIS Study Group.

Continue on for the agenda, location, how to watch it live and a registration link.

Continue on for the agenda and a link for registration for this December 8 event.

"The Multimedia Library has set up a list of books and journal articles on the history of United Nations peacekeeping forces and operations."

The Joint Special Operations University Library posts multiple reading lists. Continue on for the link.

"Vietnam was a complex conflict, which historians and political scientists have struggled to understand."

"With the apparent lack of progress and success in Afghanistan and Iraq, COIN has fallen out of favor within the political and military establishments in the U.S. and elsewhere."

Continue on for a link to the debate at Task & Purpose.

When it comes to national security, should one advise President Barack Obama on the best course of action or just the best course of action that he is likely or able to accept and implement?

A U.S. Government watchdog reported the military spent nearly $43 million, on a natural gas automobile filling station.

"It’s time to stop this constant refrain that President Obama has no strategy for Syria."

"The White House says U.S. special operations troops sent to Syria will not be there to engage in raids or combat."

While our younger Soldiers and leaders were raised on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms, our senior leadership was not.

"Untruthfulness is surprisingly common in the U.S. military even though members of the profession are loath to admit it."

"Defense Secretary Ash Carter will decide in the coming weeks whether female Marines should be barred from ground combat jobs."

"IS has been accustomed to acting as an aggressor, but U.S. intelligence officials say its momentum 'has largely been blunted' in Syria."

A one-day workshop on the foundations of an LRC program and prototypical learning event for organizations whose missions involve cross-cultural complexity. 

"Russian reporting is as sophisticated and compelling as US reporting in Iraq... But it's also repeating US mistakes."

"The Obama policy calling for a smaller standing ground army reflects a deliberate strategy shift and not just a response to cost-cutting."

"The Invisible Armies Insurgency Tracker presents a database of insurgencies from 1775 to 2012."

"Poor strategic decision making since 2001 has involved the United States in messy civil wars that will take years, if not decades, to resolve."

ISCL is now welcoming article submissions for the Winter issue 2016 of its online Journal of Culture, Language and International Security.  

"After months of skirting the issue of whether American forces are in combat in Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Warren was clear on Wednesday: 'Of course it’s combat.'"

"The increasingly confused battlefield of northern Syria gives new meaning to the old saying that war makes for strange bedfellows."

"The U.S. military remains determined to defeat Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant extremist forces and effectively adapts its campaign as conditions evolve in Iraq and Syria."