War in Iraq and Afghanistan
He has criticized the Bush Administration's efforts in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. According to an article in National Business Review, Cordesman was said to have been only "48 per cent" convinced on the need to invade Iraq in 2003, but contends that "concerns over Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction were valid". He considers the current "chaos" in Iraq as the result of "pre-existing fractures in the country’s social makeup", and a "tribal, clan-based society".
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