MESOP PUBLICATION RELEASE – BETWEEN NOT-IN AND ALL-IN: U.S. Military Options in Syria

CHANDLER ATWOOD, JOSHUA BURGESS, MICHAEL EISENSTADT & JOSEPH WAWRO

POLICY NOTE 18 • MAY 2014  – In Policy Note 18, Washington Institute military fellows Chandler Atwood, Joshua Burgess, Michael Eisenstadt, and Joseph Wawro address specific military steps that can help prevent worst-case scenarios from materializing. An accompanying PowerPoint briefing elaborates on options described in the text.

THE AUTHORS : Maj Chandler P. Atwood (USAF) is a senior intelligence officer who has deployed and participated in Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle, Southern Watch, and Northern Watch. / Col Joshua C. Burgess (USAF) is a political affairs strategist with extensive special-operations and security-cooperation experience in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Central Asia, and is a linguist in German, Spanish, French, and Dari.

Lt Col Michael Eisenstadt (USAR, ret.) is director of the Military and Security Studies program at The Washington Institute.

Maj Joseph D. Wawro (USA) holds a master’s degree in national security and policymaking from the Naval War College and was deployed most recently to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and to Afghanistan in 2010. – http://www.mesop.de/?p=47146