BruceR.'s Afghan essentials
1) Today's essential Afghan PowerPoint:
From the CounterInsurgency Center blog, essential info for troops heading to Afghanistan...2) Today's essential Afghan reading
Dorronsoro and, singing in a slightly different register, David Kilcullen are shaping the new Conventional Wisdom on Afghanistan virtually as I write. What's out, in this new CW? PRTs, NATO-style OMLTs, and clear-hold-build, at least as a generally applicable model for Afghanistan...
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 11:02 a.m.
1 Comments:
Dorronsoro paints a rather bleak picture. I'd be interested to hear from Bruce whether a) he thinks there IS a potentially successful strategy to move the mission in the Pashtun belt forward, and b) what that might be. Because Dorronsoro seems to be saying our window for moving Pashtun minds has closed, and the Taliban's on the inside, we're not.
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