Iraq's Evolving Insurgency: The Nature of Attacks and Patterns and Cycles in the Conflict

Though cycles are apparent in the insurgency in Iraq, signs that the struggle is being lost or won aren't, writes CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy Anthony Cordesman in a new analysis. But, he concludes, this news "does not mean the counterinsurgency campaign cannot be won."

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Anthony H. Cordesman

Anthony H. Cordesman

Former Emeritus Chair in Strategy