Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "New Bid to Control Pakistan's Tribal Belt."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "New Bid to Control Pakistan's Tribal Belt."
After years of Pakistani indecision and US deference, the fight against Pakistan's terrorists, it appears, is now entering a new stage.
Since 9/11, Pakistan has been slow to react to the increasing influence of militants in its remote tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, and the US has been loath to interfere, at least openly.
With plans to send 3,200 more troops to Afghanistan in the spring, the US is adding strength to the Afghan side. America's overtures to Pakistan represent an effort to "find ways to strengthen the Pakistan Army," says Anthony Cordesman, a security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Read the article
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