Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. General: Iraqi Forces to be Fully Ready in '09."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. General: Iraqi Forces to be Fully Ready in '09."
Iraq's army and police will be fully manned and operational by mid-2009, possibly as early as April, the top U.S. general in charge of building Iraqi security forces said yesterday, signaling the prospect that Iraqi forces could assume primary combat responsibilities in the country while U.S. troops shift to a supporting role. [. . .]
Pressure on the Bush administration to agree to a withdrawal timetable is growing as polls show that most Iraqis oppose the U.S. troop presence. "If they can establish a clear schedule for withdrawal, it is probably a schedule the next U.S. president will accept," said Anthony H. Cordesman, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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