Middle East

Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, director of CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, testified before the House Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, on "Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: Ramifications for U.S. Homeland Security."

Fariborz Ghadar, Distinguished Scholar & Senior Advisor testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.

Jon Alterman, director of CSIS's Middle East Program, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia.

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Dr. John J. Hamre, President and CEO of Center for Strategic and International Studies, testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on January 16, 2008 at a hearing entitled, “Alternative Strategies for Iraq in the Post-Surge Environment".

Anthony Cordesman, who holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Anthony Cordesman, who holds the CSIS Arleigh Burke Chair in Strategy, testified on Iraqi force development before the House Armed Services Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

Anthony Cordesman, who holds the Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, testified on Afghanistan before the House Foreign Relations Committee. Cordesman also released a brief that accompanied his testimony.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a trustee and counselor at CSIS, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. involvement in Iraq.