Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say from SWJ Blog by Dave Dilegge

Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say

from SWJ Blog by Dave Dilegge

Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say by David Wood, Politics Daily. BLUF: "Experts on Afghanistan and on counterinsurgency, among them active-duty and retired military officers, analysts and academics, are pushing to have the U.S. mission in Afghanistan significantly narrowed in scope. Their message, in brief: Drop the hearts 'n' minds stuff. Go kill the enemy."

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