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- ↑ Ben Connable, Iraq picture may not be as bleak as it seems, CNN, January 30, 2014
- ↑ Ben Connable, Defeating the Islamic State in Iraq: Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, RAND Corporation, September 2014