March 18, 2003
IraqFormer Marine Corps General Trainor says hes not quite comfortable with the size and makeup of the U.S. forces based in Kuwait, asserting that the military has been slow to send in…
January 28, 2003
IraqBernard E. Trainor, a retired three-star Marine general and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says a war against Iraq could start in the period from late February to the middle of…
November 9, 2006
United StatesRetired Marine Lieut. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor, who has coauthored a book on the planning for the Iraq war, says that departing Secretary of Defense Donald M. Rumsfeld will probably leave a “negative …
August 12, 2004
IraqBernard E. Trainor, a retired three-star U.S. Marine Corps general, says that Iraq’s future may hinge on the battle for Najaf. “The issue is still in doubt as to whether the outcome is going to be be…
August 25, 2003
IraqRetired three-star Marine Corps General Bernard E. Trainor says that U.S. forces merit stellar marks for their military victory but only a D for postwar operations. He blames much of the…
April 10, 2003
IraqFormer three-star Marine Corps General Bernard Trainor says that with the Iraq war in its final days, the coalition forces conducted an extraordinary military operation. He gives especia…
April 4, 2003
IraqFormer three-star Marine Corps General Bernard Trainor says that the Iraq war is now at a tipping point, with the vaunted Iraqi Republican Guard forces virtually decimated by U.S. firepo…
March 28, 2003
IraqFormer three-star Marine Corps General Bernard Trainor says that a shock and awe air campaign has failed and an anticipated uprising of Shiias has not occurred, thereby prolonging the Ir…
February 4, 2019
United StatesBy Penny Pritzker, chairman and founder of PSP Partners; and Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. (Note the following excerpt is from a chapter writ…
January 23, 2019
Military OperationsThis is a guest post by Benjamin Silliman, research associate for Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) …