Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted for a McClatchy Newspapers Column, "How Iraq War Reality Will Complicate Plans of Bush’s Successor."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted for a McClatchy Newspapers Column, "How Iraq War Reality Will Complicate Plans of Bush’s Successor."
Five years after President Bush launched the war in Iraq, the three major candidates seeking to replace him have proposed distinctly different visions of the future of the conflict.
But the complex realities of the costly and complex war and the strategic importance of the region will pose problems to all three visions, analysts say.
"You can say anything you want during the campaign right now," said former Pentagon official Anthony Cordesman, a defense analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. "The real world here doesn't have all that much to do with political campaigns or anniversaries. It has to do with the facts on the ground when the president takes office." Read the article
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