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Anthony H. Cordesman
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Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center For Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
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| Position: |
Con
to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?"
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| Reasoning: |
"One of the critical uncertainties surrounding the Iraq War is still how optional the war really was, and whether containment and disarmament could have dealt with Saddam
Hussein. The threat Iraq posed under Saddam Hussein does not seem to have been imminent, but it is not yet clear from the discoveries to date how much Iraq’s success in retaining weapons of mass destruction made that threat so proximate that the US and Britain had to attack...
Ultimately, the United States must have the world’s trust to underpin its structure of
alliances and to reduce the risk its actions will create a network of opposing military,
political, and economic alliances. Trust is not earned by new ways of war, it is earned by
justice and restraint."
"The Lessons of the Iraq War: Issues Relating to Grand Strategy," CSIS
July 3, 2003
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Credibility
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Organization/VIP/Other
Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories.
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| Involvement: |
- Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center For Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
- National Security Analyst, ABC News
- Former Director, CSIS Gulf Net Assessment Project
- Former Director, CSIS Gulf in Transition Study
- Former Principle Investigator, CSIS Homeland Defense Project
- Former Director, CSIS Middle East Net Assessment Project
- Co-Director, CSIS Strategic Energy Initiative
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| Education: |
[Editor's Note: ProCon.org contacted Mr. Cordesman's CSIS office on May 11, 2007 requesting information on his educational background. We were told that Mr. Cordesman's website page provides all of his publicly available information. There is no educational background on Mr. Cordesman's website page.]
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Affiliations/
Honors:
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- Former National Security Assistant to Senator John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee
- Former Director of Intelligence Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Former Civilian Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Former Director of policy and planning for resource applications in the Department of Energy
- Former Adjunct Professor,National Security Studies, Georgetown University
- Former International Editor, Armed Forces Journal
- Former U.S. Editor, Armed Forces UK
- 1974 - Directed the analysis of the lessons of the October War for the Secretary of Defense
- Two time Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Smithsonian
- Department of Defense Distinguished Service medal recipient
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Select Publications:
- "Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success," CSIS, 12/1/05
- "The War After the War: Strategic Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan," CSIS, 6/1/04
- The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons, New York: Praeger Publishers, 2003
- "Iraq’s Military Capabilities in 2002: A Dynamic Net Assessment," CSIS, September 2002
- Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond (with co-author Ahmed Hashim), Boulder: Westview Press, 2001
- Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Defending the U.S. Homeland, New York: Praeger Publishers, 2001
- Iraq and the War of the Sanctions: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1999
- The Lessons of Modern War: The Iran-Iraq War (with co-author Abraham R. Wagner), Boulder: Westview Press, 1991
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