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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Reuters, "Troops Kill 25 Militants in Iraqi Slum, U.S. Says."
May 10, 2008

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Burke Chair in Strategy

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Defense Policy

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Anthony H. Cordesman

Excerpt:

American forces have killed 25 militants in the past two days in Sadr City, the Baghdad district that is a stronghold of the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr, the United States military said Friday. [ . . .]

"Iraqi officials are dealing with a developing chain of command that often leaps to conclusions and reports success before it occurs, often under pressure from the media," Anthony H. Cordesman, a security analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told The A.P.

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