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February 10th, 2009
Suicide bombers may await new U.S. troops
in the news: Leatherneck on January 23, 2009Max Abrahms, CISAC predoctoral fellow, was quoted in Leatherneck, an online publication of the U.S. Marine Corps, in an article about the rise of suicide bombings as the U.S. increased its troop presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more »
November 21st, 2008
Ends, Ways, and Means in Iraq: 10 Issues for the Obama Administration
Op-ed: World Politics Review on November 17, 2008CISAC Honors Program alumnus Brian Burton and CISAC Predoctoral Fellow John Paul Schnapper-Casteras detail the top 10 issues President-elect Barack Obama must address. Read more »
October 22nd, 2008
Documents detail Iranian training of Iraqi militias
in the news: Stanford Report on October 22, 2008Army terrorism expert Col. Joseph Felter, a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution, presented once-secret intelligence documents that summarize 28 interrogations of detainees captured in Iraq and provide detailed descriptions of Iranian-sponsored paramilitary training and aid to militants in Iraq during a talk at CISAC on October 9. Read more »
May 13th, 2008
CISAC's Hecker and Perry discuss North Korea in Washington Post
Op-ed: Washington Post on May 13, 2008Siegfried Hecker and William Perry argue that the Bush administration should not walk away or slow down talks with Pyongyang, instead it should focus on limiting North Korea's nuclear capabilities by concluding the elimination of plutonium production. Read more »
April 30th, 2008
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker testifies before Senate Appropriations Committee
Dr. Hecker testified April 30, 2008, about the importance of expanding the cooperative threat reduction programs to counter the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons capability. 
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December 12th, 2006
Uncle Sam's lonely predicament: Op-ed by CISAC's David Laitin
Op-ed: Newsday on December 8, 2006Among the most publicized recommendations of the Iraq Study Group is that the United States talk with its adversaries Iran and Syria in seeking peace in the Middle East. Talking with its allies may be a more difficult proposition, CISAC's David Laitin asserts in this New York Newsday op-ed. The Bush administration has alienated once-strong U.S. allies, and winning back their trust could take years, Laitin writes.
December 8th, 2006
Iraq Study Group advises troop pullback, Mideast diplomacy; CISAC's Perry on panel
in the news: New York Times, NPR on December 7, 2006The Iraq Study Group--on which William Perry, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at CISAC, served as a member--released its report, advising a withdrawal of U.S. troops and negotiations with Iran, Syria, and other Middle East nations to make the best of a rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq. Perry advocated a timeline for troop withdrawal and persuaded colleagues on the bipartisan panel to recommend clear goals for pulling out of Iraq, David E. Sanger reported in the New York Times. 
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