Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the New York Post, "Fight for Iraq: 5 Years & Counting."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the New York Post, "Fight for Iraq: 5 Years & Counting."
Five years of war have left the U.S. with the grim and costly prospect of another five or even 10 years of nation-building in Iraq - barring a major policy change.
More than 1 million U.S. troops have passed through Iraq and nearly 4,000 have died there in what military analysts have described as a strategic circle game.
Respected analyst Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said "the surge has done what it can do" and it will still take years to achieve "a reasonable degree of security." Read the article
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