Center for Strategic Communication

Obama, Assad and Putin: No easy answer

By Patricia H. Kushlis For such a small country, international concern over the civil war in Syria is outsized.  As they say in real estate, however, location is everything and Syria borders on any number of countries in the Middle East from Turkey to the north to...

What the United States Faces in Syria

Over the past month there has been a major change in the tempo and strategic environment of the Syrian Civil War.  The acceleration of the conflict can be traced back to the bombing of a Syrian security forces meeting on July 17th that killed a number of Bashir...