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America’s Key to Keeping ISIS Defeated

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Partly by accident and partly by mission creep, the U.S. has found itself sitting astride the most important real estate in the Middle East.

Seth J. Frantzman
Seth J. Frantzman
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Seth J. Frantzman

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