Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by CNN.com, "Some Progress in Iraq's Powder Keg a Year After 'Surge.'"
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by CNN.com, "Some Progress in Iraq's Powder Keg a Year After 'Surge.'"
A year after President Bush ordered nearly 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq, American and Iraqi officials said there has been a drop in violence and some baby steps toward political reconciliation, but they see no cause for celebration. . . .
A research paper issued last week by Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies summed up the state of affairs in Iraq.
"No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area," the report said. "If the U.S. provides sustained support to the Iraqi government -- in security, governance, and development -- there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state.
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