Articles by Robin Wright
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Our High-Priced Mercenaries in Syria
Robin Wright – The New Yorker,
21 Sep 2015
The U.S. campaign to create a new ground force to fight the Islamic State appears to be a flop. The program, designed to train some fifteen thousand Syrians in the course of three years-at a cost of five hundred million dollars-has … ‘We’re talking four or five,’ General Lloyd J. Austin III told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday [16 Sep].
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Robin Wright – United States Institute of Peace,
21 Feb 2011
The Arab world’s old authoritarian order is being shattered, whatever happens next. With Egypt accounting for roughly one-quarter of the Arab world’s 300 million people, the transition of political power in Cairo will have widespread effect across the twenty-two nation bloc. From Casablanca to Kuwait, Tripoli to Damascus, Egypt’s transition will affect every other Arab country in some way—small or large, direct or indirect.
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