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Monica Duffy Toft

Cognoscenti contributor

Monica Duffy Toft is a professor of international politics at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the director of Fletcher’s Center for Strategic Studies.  She's also a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute. Her research focuses on U.S. military interventions abroad from 1776 to 2017, and measuring the unintended consequences of those interventions. Her latest book is “People Changing Places.”

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Kill Or Be Killed Is No Strategy

Kill Or Be Killed Is No Strategy

The United States is acting unlawfully and unilaterally, writes Monica Duffy Toft. Our use of force -- once widely viewed with a mix of awe and gratitude (if not tolerance)...

Jan 8, 2020
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