Five bad options for Iraq
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The five options the US is considering towards approaching Iraq, continuing to muddle through with the current approach, expanding the size of the deployed military forces, shifting towards counterinsurgency operations, drawing down the overall force size, and using the remainder for a more limited mission and complete withdrawal seem fundamentally difficult to sustain. Expansion is not feasible and withdrawal would prove disastrous, while shifting towards counterinsurgency offers many benefits though it is highly unlikely that the US would do it properly.
Publication Name: Survival
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0039-6338
Year: 2005
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The myth of the 'German way': German foreign policy and transatlantic relations
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The core components of Germany's traditional foreign policy conception include general strategic preferences for embedding German foreign policy into multilateral frameworks, the goal of a civilized international order, and a preference for non-military means and strong aversion to the use of military force. The strains of further adjustment and non-adjustment can be expected to change transatlantic framework.
Publication Name: Survival
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0039-6338
Year: 2005
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Anatomy of a habit: America's unnecessary wars
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American history shows that the United States has had a strong propensity to become involved in unnecessary wars. These wars share some common characteristics, namely that, they were justified in the name of America's presumed historical mission, they were entered into the basis of false premises and that the wars exhibit a kind of 'law of unintended consequences'.
Publication Name: Survival
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0039-6338
Year: 2005
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