An Unfolding Tragedy

Abstract

While world leaders attention is drawn to nuclear negotiations with Iran, the ISAF withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a host of pressing domestic issues, the human tragedy in Syria continues unabated. Millions of Syrian civilians have been uprooted by the conflict, either as refugees in neighboring countries, or displaced within Syria itself. Villages and neighborhoods have been destroyed. The dead exceed 150,000. In a world grown an anesthetized to the brutality of civil war, the conflict in Syria is especially disconcerting, sending as it has a wave of de-stabilization rippling through concentric dimensions of security.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1042453

Entities

People

  • Alexa Courtney
  • Michael Miklaucic

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arabia
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Civil War
  • Geography
  • Human Resources
  • Insurgency
  • International Relations
  • Middle East
  • National Security
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United States
  • Violence
  • War
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Sociology

Readers

  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies