Friday, February 5, 2021
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Mel Leffler wrote an article for the Washington Post on the significant threats that climate change and pandemics pose to national security: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/26/defeating-todays-top-threats-requires-rethinking-our-idea-national-security/ Mel also recently reviewed Robert Draper’s book, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq in the November/December 2020 issue of Foreign Affairs:https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2020-10-13/decider