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PhD Political Science University of Pennsylvania
Masters International Relations George Washington University
Bachelors History University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is a national security analyst on a number of global conflicts. Career He earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago , his M.A. from the Fletcher School, Tufts University , and his Ph.D. from the University of London .

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Gulf war. (1991) (103)
The Lessons of Modern War (1990) (90)
The lessons and non-lessons of the air and missile campaign in Kosovo (2001) (74)
Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-First Century: The Political, Foreign Policy, Economic, and Energy Dimensions (2003) (64)
The Iraq War : strategy, tactics, and military lessons (2003) (63)
Iraq's Insurgency and the Road to Civil Conflict (2007) (53)
Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-First Century : The Military and International Security Dimensions (2003) (49)
The Military Balance in the Middle East (2004) (49)
Weapons Of Mass Destruction In The Middle East (1991) (47)
Iraq: Sanctions And Beyond (1997) (47)
Saudi Arabia: National Security in a Troubled Region (2009) (44)
After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East (1993) (43)
Iraq and the War of Sanctions: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction (1999) (42)
Iran's Military Forces and Warfighting Capabilities: The Threat in the Northern Gulf (2007) (41)
Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Defending the U.S. Homeland (2001) (39)
The Gulf And The Search For Strategic Stability (1984) (37)
Iran's Military Forces in Transition: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction (1999) (36)
Chinese military modernization and force development : a Western perspective : a report of the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy (2013) (36)
The Lessons of Afghanistan: War Fighting, Intelligence, and Force Transformation (2002) (35)
Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, And The Uae: Challenges Of Security (1997) (34)
Saudi Arabia: Guarding The Desert Kingdom (1997) (32)
Gulf Military Forces In An Era Of Asymmetric Wars (2006) (31)
Iran And Iraq: The Threat From The Northern Gulf (1994) (30)
Iraq's Evolving Insurgency (2005) (27)
Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland (2001) (27)
Iraqi security forces : a strategy for success (2006) (25)
Kuwait: Recovery And Security After The Gulf War (1997) (24)
Iran: Dilemmas Of Dual Containment (1997) (23)
THE "GAZA WAR": A Strategic Analysis (2009) (22)
The Israeli-Palestinian War: Escalating to Nowhere (2005) (22)
Iran's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Real and Potential Threat (2006) (22)
The Iran-Iraq War and Western Security, 1984-87 (1987) (22)
A Tragedy of Arms: Military and Security Developments in the Maghreb (2001) (20)
Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East (1998) (20)
Arab-Israeli Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric Wars (2006) (19)
The Developing Iraqi Insurgency: Status at End-2004 (2004) (19)
The Changing Dynamics of Energy in the Middle East (2006) (19)
National Security in Saudi Arabia: Threats, Responses, and Challenges (2005) (18)
The war after the war : strategic lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan (2004) (18)
The Global Oil Market: Risks And Uncertainties (2006) (17)
SYMPOSIUM ON DUAL CONTAINMENT: U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN AND IRAQ (1994) (17)
The Gulf and the West (1988) (17)
The Lessons of Modern War, Vol. 4: The Gulf War (1996) (16)
Perilous Prospects: The Peace Process And The Arab-israeli Military Balance (1996) (16)
Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror? (2006) (16)
The Lessons Of Modern War Volume IV: The Gulf War (1996) (15)
Center for Strategic and International Studies 1800 K Street N.W. Washington, DC 20006 (2002) (15)
Saudi Militants in Iraq : Assessment and Kingdom ’ s Response (2005) (14)
Jordanian Arms And The Middle East Balance (1983) (12)
THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE IN 2010 (2010) (11)
Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Birth of a Regional Nuclear Arms Race? (2009) (11)
Winning The“War on Terrorism”: A Fundamentally Different Strategy (2006) (9)
Deterrence in the 1980s: Part I American strategic forces and extended deterrence: Introduction (1982) (9)
Transnational Threats from the Middle East: Crying Wolf or Crying Havoc? (1999) (9)
Iraq in Crisis (2014) (8)
Dark Victory: America’s Second War against Iraq, (2006) (8)
THE FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEM What Future Can the Army Afford (2009) (8)
The challenge of biological terrorism (2005) (7)
The Iraq War (2003) (7)
Peace and war : The Arab-Israeli military balance enters the 21st century (2002) (7)
Salvaging American Defense: The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch (2007) (7)
The War after the War: (2019) (7)
Energy Developments in the Middle East (2004) (6)
The Uncertain “ Metrics ” of Afghanistan ( and Iraq ) (2007) (6)
The North African Military Balance: Force Developments in the Maghreb (2009) (6)
Stability Operations in Syria: The Need for a Revolution in Civil-Military Affairs (2017) (6)
Iraqi Economic Reconstruction and Development (2005) (6)
Strategic Threats and National Missile Defenses: Defending the U.S. Homeland (2001) (6)
IRANIAN WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (2008) (5)
The Arab-Israeli conflicts, 1973-1989 (1990) (5)
Imbalance of power : an analysis of shifting U.S.-Soviet military strengths (1978) (5)
The Afghan and Falklands conflicts (1990) (5)
Iran and the United States: The Nuclear Issue (2008) (5)
The One True U.S. Strategic Interest in the Middle East: Energy (2001) (5)
The Iran-Iraq war (1990) (5)
Iraqi Security Forces (2005) (5)
The Changing Military Balance In the Gulf (1998) (5)
Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and Prospects of War (2008) (5)
Iraq's Military Capabilities in 2002: A Dynamic Net Assessment (2002) (5)
Symposium: The United States, Its Middle East Allies And Iran: What Is The Way Forward? (2014) (4)
The Future of the Middle East: Strategic Implications for the United States (2007) (4)
Symposium: The Arab Uprisings and U.S. Policy: What Is the American National Interest? (2011) (4)
US AND IRANIAN STRATEGIC COMPETITION: The Impact of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Central Asia (2013) (4)
U.S. Forces in the Middle East (1997) (4)
Western Strategic Interests in Saudi Arabia (2020) (3)
Measuring the strategic balance: Secretary of defense brown as an American oracle (1982) (3)
The U.S. Military and the Evolving Challenges in the Middle East (2012) (3)
U.S. Strategy in the 1990s: Requirements versus Resources (1991) (3)
Weapons of Mass Destruction (2002) (3)
Middle Eastern Energy after the Iraq War: Current and Projected Trends (2003) (3)
The Military Balance in the Middle East: An Executive Summary (1999) (3)
Cyber-Threats, Information Welfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection (2001) (3)
The Military in a New Era: Living with Complexity (2001) (2)
Symposium‐The Challenge In The Gulf: Building a Bridge From Containment to Stability (1997) (2)
No end of a lesson? Iraq and the issue of arms transfers (1991) (2)
SHAPING AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY (2010) (2)
Afghan economics and outside aid (2013) (2)
The Lessons of Modern War: The Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 1973-1989.@@@Key to the Sinai: The Battles for Abu Agaila in the 1956 and 1967 Arab-Israeli Wars. (1992) (2)
Gulf Threats, Risks and Vulnerabilities: Terrorism and Asymmetric Warfare (2009) (2)
War with Iraq: A Cost–Benefit Analysis (2002) (2)
Symposium: The United States and Saudi Arabia: American Interests and Challenges to the Kingdom in 2002 (2002) (2)
China and the US : National Missile Defenses and Chinese nuclear modernization : a background paper (2000) (2)
The Role of Europe in the Middle East. ESF Working Paper No. 7, 1 June 2002 (2002) (2)
US State Department and Counter- Terrorism Center Reporting Terrorism in the Middle East and Central Asia, August 2010 (2011) (1)
Conventional balance, asymmetric forces, and US forces (2013) (1)
After ISIS: Creating Strategic Stability in Iraq (2017) (1)
Key Issues from an American Perspective (2008) (1)
Developments in Theater Level War Games. Materials for the C-5 Working Group 'Gaming and Simulation, of the 35th Session of the Military Operations Research Society (1974) (1)
Technology and the search for conventional options: Religion versus reality (1989) (1)
Iraq After Saddam -- Nation Building and Opposition Movements (1998) (1)
Missile, DPRK and ROK nuclear forces, and external nuclear forces (2013) (1)
Peace and War (2001) (1)
The Gulf between the Superpowers (1985) (1)
Lessons of Post-Cold War Conflict : Middle Eastern Lessons and Perspectives (2004) (1)
Measuring the Strategic Balance. Working Papers for the International Institute for Strategic Studies. (1976) (1)
U.S. strategic interests and the India-Pakistan military balance (1988) (1)
Four wars and counting… (2004) (1)
Saudi Arabia and Western Power Projection Capabilities (2020) (1)
The US and the Middle East: Energy Dependence, Demographics, and the Myth of Oil Wealth (2002) (1)
Key Targets in Iraq (1998) (1)
Arms Transfers to the Middle East (2019) (1)
Saudi Arabia (1992) (1)
The Powder Keg: An Intelligence Officer's Guide to Military Forces in the Middle East, 1996-2000 (1996) (1)
The New Balance of Gulf Arms (1999) (1)
Iraq Stability and the “ISIL War” (2015) (1)
Saudi Military Forces and Development: Challenges & Reforms-May 30, 2004 (2004) (0)
The Lessons of the 1973 Arab-Israeli Conflict (2020) (0)
Kuwaiti Military Spending and Arms Imports (2018) (0)
Looking Beyond A Surge : The Tests a New US Strategy in Iraq Must (2007) (0)
Unconventional Warfare and Terrorism (2018) (0)
"Imbalance of Power, Shifting U.S.-Soviet Military Strength," and "American and Soviet Military Trends—Since the Cuban Missile Crisis" (1978) (0)
Internal Political Developments Since the Gulf War (2018) (0)
The Saudi Air Defense Force (2019) (0)
Setting the Right Conditions for Aid to Afghanistan – and Other Nations As Well (2022) (0)
The Palestinian Tactical Response: Asymmetric Warfare and the Battle of Perceptions (2005) (0)
Military Expenditures and Arms Sales (2018) (0)
Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in North Africa (2019) (0)
Case Five: Islamic Upheaval—Egyptian Crisis with Israel (2018) (0)
The Impact of Qualitative Factors and the “Revolution in Military Affairs” (2018) (0)
Western policy and security trends in the Middle East (1993) (0)
Losing the “Forgotten War ”: The Us Strategic Vacuum in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia (2017) (0)
United Arab Emirates (2018) (0)
The Southern Gulf States (2018) (0)
North Korea ’ s “ Thermonuclear ” Test : The Paradox of Small , developing Nuclear Forces (2016) (0)
The Impact of Strategy: "Base Force" and "Bottom Up Review" (2019) (0)
Political, Military, and Economic Dynamics in Iraq: A Graphic Overview (2007) (0)
The Threat from Iraqi Naval Forces (2018) (0)
US Plans for a Major Regional Contingency in Southwest Asia (2019) (0)
External Security Issues (2019) (0)
The Saudi Army (2019) (0)
STRATEGIC AND WARFIGHTING IMPLICATIONS OF A NUCLEAR ARMED IRAN (2009) (0)
Internal Change and Internal Security (2019) (0)
The Military Capabilities and Vulnerabilities of the Southern Gulf States (2019) (0)
Changes in US Defense Budgets, Strategy, and Force Plans (2019) (0)
Case three: the Collapse of the peace Process and Conflict Between Israel and Jordan (2018) (0)
The Pivotal Role of the Saudi Air Force (2020) (0)
The Threat from Iraqi Air and Air Defense Forces (2018) (0)
Quantitative Comparisons: Comparing Military Forces by Country (2018) (0)
Saudi Missile Capabilities (2019) (0)
The Future of Western Strategic Relations with the Southern Gulf (2019) (0)
Saudi Paramilitary and Internal Security Forces (2019) (0)
Key Issues Affecting Western and Saudi Relations (2020) (0)
Analytic and Policy Implications (2018) (0)
Report on North Korea, Iran, Iraq and US National Missile Defenses : a background paper (2000) (0)
Case Six: A Broad Islamic Upheaval—Egypt, Jordan, and Syria are Joined by Other Arab States (2018) (0)
The Military Build-Up in the Gulf and the Role of the USSR (2019) (0)
The “Periphery”: Political Alienation and Abuses of Human Rights (2018) (0)
The US, the Gulf, and the Middle East: Energy Dependence, Demographics, and the Forces Shaping Internal Stability (2002) (0)
Net Assessment and Defense Resources: Challenges for the Next Administration (1989) (0)
The Impact of US Military Aid and Arms Sales (2019) (0)
Intelligence, Iraq, and Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) (0)
The Problem of Policy: Beyond Sanctions and “Dual Containment” (2018) (0)
The Formal Politics of Iraq’s Instruments of State Power (2018) (0)
Imbalance of Power: Shifting U.S.-Soviet Military Strengths (1978) (0)
The Threat from Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (2018) (0)
The Reagan Administration: Its past and future impact on western defence (1986) (0)
Kuwaiti Paramilitary and Internal Security Forces (2018) (0)
Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, and the West (2019) (0)
The Changing Nature of the Afghan-Pakistan War (2008) (0)
The Saudi Navy (2019) (0)
The Regional Role of the Saudi Air Force (2019) (0)
The Lessons of International Co-operation in Counter-Terrorism (2006) (0)
From Peace to War: Terrorism for Settlements (2005) (0)
The realities and unrealities of the middle eastern arms market (1987) (0)
Kuwait’s Military Forces (2018) (0)
Economic and Social Issues (2019) (0)
Case Four: A Jordanian-Syrian Alliance—the Eastern Front (2018) (0)
Oil and Iraqi Export Capabilities (2018) (0)
Case Seven: Libyan, Iranian, and Iraqi Conventional Forces (2018) (0)
The Uses of Force in the Middle East (1989) (0)
The Changing Structure of US War-Fighting Resources and Capabilities in the Gulf (2019) (0)
The New Patterns of US-Gulf Relations and the Crises in the Middle East Under Trump’s Administration (2019) (0)
Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Red Sea and the Horn (2019) (0)
The Saudi National Guard (2019) (0)
The Threat from Iraqi Land Forces (2018) (0)
Is 2004 the Year of the Greater Middle East (2004) (0)
'HITEX', High Technology Experimental Forces Project Concept Briefing (1974) (0)
Rebuilding Kuwait’s Forces Following the Gulf War (2018) (0)
The Development of Saudi Forces (2019) (0)
The Saudi Air Force (2019) (0)
Iraq: The Missing Keystone in U.S. Policy in the Gulf Annex Two: Dealing with the Civil Crisis in Iraq (2021) (0)
Current Trends Arms Sales in the Middle East (2019) (0)
The US and the Middle East: Energy Dependence and Demographics (2002) (0)
Arab–U.S. Strategic Cooperation: A Net Assessment (2002) (0)
The Focus of US Planning and Strategy Shifts to Major Regional Contingencies (2019) (0)
Western Strategic Interests in the Southern Gulf (2019) (0)
Political and Economic Stability and Security (2018) (0)
New Arrangements with Regional Powers (2019) (0)
Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Arab-Israeli Confrontation States (2019) (0)
The West Enters the Gulf: 1985–1987 (2019) (0)
Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Southern Gulf States (2019) (0)
Possible War Fighting Outcomes: A Dynamic Net Assessment (2018) (0)
Security and the ANSF (2013) (0)
Strategic Interests, Arms Control, and Regional Stability: Conflict or Synergy? (2019) (0)
Force Shifts and Continuing Struggle: 1982–1989 (2020) (0)
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States - Workshop Papers (1988) (0)
Kuwait’s Naval Forces Since the Gulf War (2018) (0)
The West and Naval Conflict in the Gulf: 1987 (2019) (0)
Alliance Requirements and the Need for Conventional Force Improvements (2019) (0)
Oil and Petroleum Related Issues (2019) (0)
Modern Warfare: The Changing Nature of War in the Middle East and North Africa (2016) (0)
US Defence in 1988: The morning after (1988) (0)
The Future of Western and Saudi Strategic Relations (2020) (0)
Recent Literature on Sanctions (2001) (0)
Russia and the US : National Missile Defenses, START, the ABM Treaty, and nuclear modernization : a background paper (2000) (0)
Institutionalizing Net Assessment in the Department of Defense. A Concept Paper (1975) (0)
The Informal Politics of the “Center” (2018) (0)
The 1982 War in Lebanon (2020) (0)
Saudi Military Forces (2019) (0)
Case Eight: Deterrence Fails—A Major use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (2018) (0)
Kuwait’s External Security: The Problem of Iran and Iraq (2018) (0)
Regional Threats and the Military Build-Up in the Gulf (2020) (0)
The challenges of leadership and governance./ author, Anthony H. Cordesman with assistance from Bryan Gold and Ashley Hess (2013) (0)
Sanctions and Economic Instability (2018) (0)
The Regional Threats to the Southern Gulf States (2019) (0)
The Southern Gulf States and Western Power Projection Capabilities (2019) (0)
US Counterproliferation Capabilities (2019) (0)
Case One: the Peace Process Fails and a New “Intifada” Takes Place (2018) (0)
Coalition Reporting as of the Fall of 2005 (2005) (0)
Peace in the Middle East: The Next Fifty Years of Conflict (2019) (0)
The Great Iraqi Missile Mystery : The Military Importance of the Ababil , Al Samoud II , Al Fatah , Badr 2000 , and Al Huysayn (2003) (0)
Kuwait’s Military Forces Before the Gulf War (2018) (0)
After the Storm (2019) (0)
Strategy, resources, and modernization (2013) (0)
Sources and Methods (2018) (0)
Weighing the Military Balance in the Middle East (2019) (0)
The Saudi Arms Sale Crisis of 1985–1986 (2019) (0)
The “Periphery”: Opposition Movements and Ethnic and Sectarian Issues (2018) (0)
Trends in the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (2019) (0)
Trends in the Military Balance and Arms Sales in the Northern Gulf States (2019) (0)
Case Two: a Syrian Grab for the Golan (2018) (0)
The Uses and Abuses of Military Power in the Middle East (2019) (0)
Iraq , Afghanistan , and the Lessons of Recent Conflicts in the Middle East (2004) (0)

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