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No Middle Way in Iraq
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Frederick W. Kagan meets the press after an AEI conference. |
| Throughout 2007, Frederick W. Kagan and AEI's Iraq Planning Group have monitored the situation in Iraq. In January, Kagan released his phase I report, Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, which urged a rapid scale-up and military surge to clear and hold key points in Iraq. Phase II focused on establishing stability after the initial military component of the surge. Last week, in anticipation of the testimony of General David Petraeus, he presented a third installment. Kagan argues against "middle-way strategies" that falsely offer prospects for a significant troop drawdown with minimal costs; rather, No Middle Way counters that such "train and equip" strategies would compromise the progress that has been made, including improved security in Baghdad and Anbar, integration of former insurgents into civil police units, and the dispersal of al Qaeda. At the session, retired General Jack Keane described the "remarkable progress, some of it quite unforeseen" that he had observed in Iraq, and argued that now is not the time to embrace defeat.
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Focus on the Iraq War
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AEI scholars are active in debates about the Iraq war, the military escalation, and how to move forward in Iraq. To view AEI's collected articles, events, books, and scholarly activity on the war, visit www.aei.org/AEIonIraq/. |
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AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
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 The National Legal Center for the Public Interest has been merged into AEI, forming a new research division named the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest (AEILC). The new AEILC will pursue an expanded program of research, publications, and conferences on legal and constitutional issues drawing on the traditions, interests, and people of both institutions. The AEILC will be directed by AEI resident fellow Ted Frank.
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National Security Outlook
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In the July/August issue of National Security Outlook, Oriana Scherr and Christopher Griffin conduct a net assessment exercise to evaluate American strengths and weaknesses in combating terrorism in the Horn of Africa.
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