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Creating a Strategy for Iraq, Syria, and the War Against ISIL: a Need for Change, Integrity, and Transparency

June 3, 2015

Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, on "Creating a Strategy for Iraq, Syria, and the War Against ISIL: a Need for Change, Integrity, and Transparency."

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