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become much more effective at helping refugees rebuild their lives and reducing the number of people trapped in protracted displacement. That remains the direction I set out in February. Today, I would like to focus on how we are...

sheets. My limbs felt heavy, watery. For two more weeks, I drifted along in a flu-like malaise that I thought was protracted jet lag. At the time, to support my life as a writer and journalist, I taught in the graduate creative writing...

As Gil Merom argued in his 2003 book How Democracies Lose Small Wars, open societies struggle to sustain the costs of protracted conflict. Unlike an authoritarian adversary, they’re constrained by a public unwilling to tolerate mounting...

conflict. If South Korea were able to absorb the initial blow, the war would very likely be transformed into a protracted high-intensity defense phase. In this stage, South Korea’s superiority in firepower would become increasingly...