Emeritus Chair in Strategy

The Emeritus Chair in Strategy provides political and military analysis of key strategic challenges facing the United States, including the Middle East, U.S. national security, global military balance, asymmetric warfare, and global energy security

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The Emeritus Chair in Strategy is affiliated with the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, which was established and endowed in honor of CSIS’s first director and cofounder, Admiral Arleigh A. Burke. Together, the Burke Chair in Strategy and the Emeritus Chair in Strategy publish a wide range of analysis on key strategic challenges facing the United States and the world. 

Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman, former Burke Chair in Strategy, currently holds the Emeritus Chair in Strategy. Dr. Cordesman remains an active scholar at CSIS and is one of the premier sources for analysis of key strategic challenges facing the United States and the world. Efforts include Middle East issues, U.S. national security, lessons of war analysis, the global military balance, asymmetric warfare, and global energy security.

Several books have been published in association with each of these projects and can be purchased online from the CSIS Press. The website of the Emeritus Chair will also contain all of the analyses formerly placed on the Burke Chair website by Dr. Cordesman, including reference work on the military balance, NATO, China, MENA region, and the lessons of war.

The Emeritus Chair will continue to release new reports and working documents. The latter will be revised on an ongoing basis and updated frequently to the web page. As a result, much of the material provided in this section should be regarded as working material that is subject to update.

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Saudi Arabia and the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act

President Obama has made it clear that he intends to veto the legislation the House passed on September 9, 2016 that would allow families of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any role its officials played in the terrorist attack.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — September 14, 2016

Syria and Iraq: What Comes After Mosul and Raqqa?

It should scarcely have come as a surprise to President Obama that he could not reach an agreement with Vladimir Putin on Syria at the G20 meeting.

Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — September 6, 2016

China Space Strategy and Developments

The Space Race between the Soviet Union and United States was one of the defining aspects of the Cold War era.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 19, 2016

Evolving Strategies in the U.S.-China Military Balance

China’s emergence as a global economic superpower, and as a major regional military power in Asia and the Pacific, has had a major impact on its relations with the United States and its neighbors.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 8, 2016

The Changing Gulf Balance and the Iranian Threat

While much of the world’s attention is focused on ISIS and on terrorism, massive changes are taking place in the military balance of the Gulf, the Iranian threat, and the nature of U.S. and Arab Gulf forces.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 4, 2016

“Defeating” ISIS: The Real Threats and Challenges

Terrorism is all too real a threat, and the brutal series mass attacks in Europe and Middle East is causing a special kind of fear. Terrorist movements like ISIS kill the innocent for the worst of causes and the worst of reasons.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 4, 2016