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Experts point to a number of postwar models, from Bosnia to Vietnam to South Korea, for Iraq to follow once U.S. forces leave.
Discussant: Andrew F. Krepinevich
Interviewer: Lionel Beehner
July 13, 2006
It was recently reported that U.S. military officials have privately drafted a plan to draw down American forces in Iraq by the end of next year. In this CFR.org podcast, Andrew Krepinevich, executive director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discusses plans for a troop drawdown, securing an increasingly sectarian Baghdad, and the "oil spot" strategy he popularized last year in Foreign Affairs.
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