Topic: Anthony Cordesman

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Is NATO losing the Afghan war? A new report by CSIS strategic guru Anthony Cordesman says yes.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Major military and political issues remain unresolved as the strategy in Iraq moves beyond the counterinsurgency campaign, analysts said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Georgia is a geopolitical sideshow next to Pakistan, one of the world’s eight nuclear powers, without Musharraf. The future of NATO is not at stake in Georgia, but it is in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Despite Iraqi military success against the Medhi Army, political wrangling may escalate to renewed violence should Sadrists feel eschewed, a noted scholar says.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama inched closer together over U.S. policy in Iraq, with each camp saying the other candidate changed his point of view.

WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- Despite careful rhetoric from the revered Iraqi Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, his opposition to U.S. interests in Iraq is apparent, an analyst says.

WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- This week the circus came to town. Not Barnum and Bailey's but Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and with it the three rings of a five-plus year war and occupation, politicians in their populist best pitches and the media echo of what the heck is going on with Iraq's oil revenue.

ARLINGTON, Va., April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. military expert Anthony Cordesman claims the Bush administration has fielded "the worst wartime national security team in United States history." That's pretty harsh.

WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Fighting in Iraq's oil capital Basra isn't the first bloodshed between varying political and armed groups but may be the decisive battle for control over the oil sector, local government and the fate of the province.

WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other top officials met the U.S. commander in Iraq to discuss the April progress report on troop levels in Iraq.