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Anthony Cordesman

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Anthony H. Cordesman
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The key lessons of America’s recent wars: failing or losing in grand strategic terms


This analysis examines each of America’s grand strategic failures in war-fighting since 1945, and its failures to learn the right lessons from these wars.
Draft report

The Biden Administration’s security challenges in the Gulf


The U.S. needs to make fundamental changes to its security efforts in the Persian/Arab Gulf and the Middle East. In this document, the author discusses the wide range of options available to the U.S, and how it can make progress in many areas in relation to the Middle East.
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U.S. strategy—strategic triage and the true cost of war: supporting enduring commitments versus “endless wars”


This paper updates the assessments of the cost of the Afghan and Iraq/Syria Wars, and highlights how these costs have been cut through major changes in the nature of U.S. ground forces and air commitments. It also highlights the affordability and present size of U.S. military bases and commitments overseas.
Draft report

China and the United States: cooperation, competition, and/or conflict


This report is an experimental net assessment that addresses China's emergence as a global superpower, and its competition with the United States.
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China’s new 2019 Defense White Paper: an open strategic challenge to the United States, but one which does not have to lead to conflict


China’s National Defense in the New Era flags the fact that America and China are now competing superpowers, and that China’s growing military forces are developing to the point where they will be able to challenge the United States.

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