Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Petraeus Set to Defend Iraq Plan as Democrats Sharpen Attack."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Petraeus Set to Defend Iraq Plan as Democrats Sharpen Attack."
Last September, U.S. Army General David Petraeus assured Congress that Iraqis would be able to end the bloody rivalry between Shiite groups in the oil-rich south by themselves.
Late last month, the U.S. carried out air strikes to help struggling Iraqi troops fighting a Shiite militia for control of the southern city of Basra.
Keane and Anthony Cordesman of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies argue that the instability in the Iraqi south shows the wisdom of Petraeus's call for a freeze on further U.S. troop withdrawals after the last surge brigade comes home. Read the article
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