Tom Donnelly

American Enterprise Institute

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Director of the Center for Defense Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Lessons of a Long War: How America Can Win on New Battlefields; former senior advisor in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Republicans John McCain and  Chuck Hagel  might have been friends when Hagel was in the Senate, but you wouldn't have known it today at  his confirmation hearing .

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NATO officials publicly claim a "clear mandate" to implement the UN Security Council  Resolution 1973  to use "all necessary measures" to protect Libyan civilians.

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