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Key Reads Lawmakers introduce bicameral ISIS war authorization Kristina Wong / The Hill Two House lawmakers on Thursday introduced a measure to authorize military force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), making it the first bipartisan and bicameral...

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Key Reads Pentagon to send 100 more troops to Iraq Andrew Tilghman and Leo Shane III / Military Times The U.S. military will send up to 100 additional troops to Iraq in the form of an “expeditionary targeting force” that will conduct direct raids on...

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Key Reads Global Anti-ISIS Alliance Begins to Emerge Nathan Hodge, William Horobin, and Philip Shishkin / The Wall Street Journal France, Russia and the U.S. moved beyond talk of cooperation and into the far more difficult realm of action, as the “grand and single...

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Key Reads Russia’s Syria Propaganda Anna Borshchevskaya / Forbes News about Syria quickly replaced news about Ukraine. It became a new drug, or as political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky said, an “imperial narcotic” that allows the public to “forget about the...

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Key Reads Can the U.S. Military Halt Its Brain Drain? David Barno and Nora Bensahel / The Atlantic The Pentagon worries its rigid personnel system is driving away the officers it will need for the conflicts of the 21st century. U.N. expects Europe’s refugee flow...