America’s Wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, And Iraq
The Challenge of Grand Strategy
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Attached at https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/publication/101213_Iraq_and_Afghan_Talk_Edited.pdf is a speech given to the discusses the Industrial College of the Armed Forces on December 10th, 2010. It discisses the December Review from a grand strategic viewpoint, as well as the conflict in Iraq. These issues are discussed in more deatail in the following reports:
"GRAND STRATEGY IN THE AFGHAN, PAKISTAN, AND IRAQ WARS:
The End State Fallacy" which can be downloaded at:
and "The War in Afghanistan: Key Trends in the Fighting and ANSF Development in the DoD1230 Report and Year-End NTM-A Reporting" which can be downloaded at:
Anthony H. Cordesman
Former Emeritus Chair in Strategy