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Take the Deal, President Trump. Eighteen Years Is Enough. It’s ...
Take the Deal, President Trump. Eighteen Years Is Enough. It’s Time to Leave Afghanistan.
Ivan Eland | Aug. 22, 2019
Trump Rolls the Dice on Sanctions and Wins...War?
Trump Rolls the Dice on Sanctions and Wins...War?
Ivan Eland | July 18, 2019
Trump or Europe: Who Is Right?
Trump or Europe: Who Is Right?
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Ivan Eland: The Impact of War on the Presidency
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Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy: Sr. Fellow Ivan ...
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Anthony Gregory on Independent Watch: The Bellicosity ...
Anthony Gregory on the Costs of Conflict
Ivan Eland on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Ivan Eland on Afghanistan’s Private Security Crackdown
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Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
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Robert Higgs on War, Taxes, and Economic Crises
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“US Troops Pulled out of Iraq” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
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“Iran and Iraq and the Threat of War” Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
May 16, 2019
“Ending the War in Afghanistan” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
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Mar. 14, 2013
Charles V. Peña on the Need to Withdraw from Afghanistan
June 22, 2011
Charles Pena on CNBC, Explaining the Afghanistan Quagmire
July 2, 2010
Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
Dec. 9, 2009
Ivan Eland: The Impact of War on the Presidency
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland on C-SPAN Discusses the History ...
Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy: Sr. Fellow Ivan ...
Russia and Afghanistan and President Trump— Sr. ...
Ivan Eland on Taliban’s POW Exchange
Ivan Eland appears on RT’s CrossTalk
Ivan Eland at CPAC 2013 “Too Many American Wars” ...
Anthony Gregory on Independent Watch: The Bellicosity ...
Anthony Gregory on the Costs of Conflict
Ivan Eland on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Ivan Eland on Afghanistan’s Private Security Crackdown
Ivan Eland on the 2014 Afghanistan Withdrawal Deadline
Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
Charles Peña on 8th Anniversary of Afghanistan ...
Robert Higgs on War, Taxes, and Economic Crises
The U.S. War on Terrorism: Myths and Realities
