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Leslie H. Gelb
President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

William Marshall
President, Progressive Policy Institute

William J. Perry
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute

John D. Podesta
President and CEO, Center for American Progress

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Principal, The Albright Group LLC

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Act on What We Already Know

07/26/10

Classified information is sexy. “Top Secret” splashed across headlines sells newspapers. But in the case of WikiLeaks’ document dump, there’s not much that a casual observer wouldn’t already know.

Will Candor Suffer?

07/26/10

This voluminous release of sensitive and classified material on the Afghan war undoubtedly provides for interesting reading into the day-to-day grind of life in the "long war." For veterans of this conflict and other insurgencies, these excerpts are a bit of deja-vu, detailing the frustrations of a style of war that -- at its best -- proceeds along taking two steps forward and one step back.

What troops really need? To blow off some steam

07/20/10

There has been no shortage of debate within military circles about revamping the rules of engagement and redefining what should be allowed by U.S. forces in the field. But the military has been mum about a YouTube video made by U.S. troops in Afghanistan lip-syncing the lyrics of Lady Gaga's Telephone that quickly went viral.

Iraq War Veterans Join Environmentalists in the Oiled Gulf of Mexico

07/17/10

Robin Eckstein has a closer relationship than most of us to the long supply chains that brings oil from the well to the wheel. In 2007 she was an Army truck driver in Iraq, shipping fuel from Baghdad International Airport to the forward bases of American operations. The U.S. military is an oil-thirsty machine, and it was the job of troops in logistics, like Eckstein, to keep the occupation fueled.

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