E-Binder
Published September 17, 2010
Updated September 17, 2010
Tough and Smart: Winning the Debate on National Security
This e-binder provides strategies and insights intended to help progressives better understand the security challenges facing the US and assist them in promoting policies in the following areas that are both tough and smart:
- The War in Afghanistan
- Combating and Defeating Terrorism
- Detention, Interrogation and Prosecution of Terrorists
- Nuclear Security
- State of the Military
- Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
- Iraq
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
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