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Greg Rosalsky

As Afghan Security Forces Training Flounders, Pentagon Alters Progress Levels, Hearing Testimony Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Greg Rosalsky | Posted 07.26.2012 | Politics
Read More: Anthony Cordesman, Pentagon, Afghan National Security Forces, Video, Charles Michael Johnson, Jim Cooper, Afghanistan, Ansf, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- After more than a decade and nearly $50 billion spent on building the Afghan National Security Forces, the Pentagon is still struggling ...

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Cordesman Game Show: So You Think You Can Win This War?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Anthony Cordesman, Andrew Bacevich, Bruce Jentleson, Karl Eikenberry, Ann Coulter, Tom Ricks, Stephen Walt, John Nagl, David Petraeus, Fran Townsend, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Csis, Charles Kupchan, Afghanistan War, Jeffrey Goldberg, Robert Pape, Jon Stewart, Gracian Del Castillo, Martin Indyk, Paul Pillar, David Frum, G. John Ikenberry, Christopher Preble, Brian Katulis, Walter Russell Mead, James Glassman, Politics News
Steve Clemons

You really think you can dance WIN THIS WAR?? -- Anthony H. Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy (not really; just hypothetically...

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Israel vs Turkey: Which Serves US Interests Better?

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Gaza, Flotilla, Israel, Jews, Anthony Cordesman, Turkey, World, Washington, Stephen Walt, Veto, US Foreign Policy, Gaza Blockade, Ankara, UN Security Council, Cold War, Rand Corporation, Strategic Interests, Steven Cook, Politics, John Mearsheimer, Diplomacy, US, World News
Sharmine Narwani

In the "strategic interest" contest between Israel and Turkey, I suspect the United States will ultimately find more shared values with Turkey -- but only if we can break the dangerous hold Israel has over us.

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War Gone Wild in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Anthony Cordesman, Karl Eikenberry, Escalation, Afghanistan, : Abe Greenwald, Rethink Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel, World News
Derrick Crowe

After more than 800 U.S. military casualties, tens of thousands of Afghan civilian deaths and $228 billion, we have zero indications that Pashtuns in Afghanistan are any closer to giving their support to the Kabul government.

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Investigating War Crimes on our Fact Finding Mission to Gaza

Noura Erakat | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Anthony Cordesman, Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, War Crimes, Operation Cast Lead, Gaza, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israeli Army, National Lawyers Guild Fact Finding, International Law, Fact Finding Gaza, World News
Noura Erakat

Upon returning from a National Lawyers Guild fact-finding mission in Gaza, I believe it is of the utmost importance to speak to Anthony Cordesman's resounding dismissal of international law.

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