November 06, 2014

How This Ends: A Blueprint for De-Escalation in Syria

By: Dafna Rand and Nicholas Heras

Deputy Director of Studies and Leon E. Panetta Fellow Dr. Dafna H. Rand and Research Associate Nicholas Heras argue for the importance of focusing on a political framework for de-escalating the civil conflict in Syria. It offers a number of principles and practical steps that would build on U.S. train and assist efforts with the moderate Syrian opposition fighters, in an effort to integrate a political strategy for Syria’s future into current U.S. and Coalition military efforts.

This brief is part of a series of CNAS publications addressing the difficult policy issues posed by the Syrian crisis. The first report in the series, The Tourniquet: A Strategy for Defeating the Islamic State and Defeating Iraq and Syria.

Authors

  • Dafna Rand

  • Nicholas Heras

    Former Fellow, Middle East Security Program

    Nicholas A. Heras is a former Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), working in the Middle East Security Program. His work focused on the analysis of complex...

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