2 Tangible threats posed by extremists from ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other violent and destabilizing radical Islamist groups can-and should-be interdicted decisively, ideally through multi-lateral responses, but also unilaterally when these options are not feasible.īut such overt and largely kinetic efforts, while important, are limited in their effect to the attrition of symptoms of the most serious and enduring threat that we face in the Middle East. 1 It also requires a better appreciation of Clausewitz’s dictum that political leaders and their senior military commanders must understand the true nature of the conflict they are fighting. and international security demands that we more holistically embrace Sun Tzu’s maxim of the importance of knowing one’s enemy. Middle East policy and more effectively addressing the roots of the problems that have manifested into threats to U.S. Poster Collection, LE 42, Hoover Institution ArchivesĪn important first step in rebooting U.S.
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