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The Islamic State has exploited long-standing Sunni grievances to challenge the territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria, creating a strategic vacuum in which Russia, Iran, the United States, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia now vie for power, sometimes through proxies, but increasingly through direct military intervention.

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In some cases, there is a military victory of one side.

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so-called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

In addition, the military issued orders forbidding western Indians from leaving reservations.

Within that sphere, most of those nodes are not actionable, like the harshness of the terrain, and a very small minority are actual military actions.

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