How Insurgencies End
23 April 2010
Ben Connable and Martin C. Libicki, How Insurgencies End, RAND Corporation, 22 April 2010
EXCERPT: "This study tested conventional wisdom about how insurgencies end against the evidence from 89 insurgencies. It compares a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 89 insurgency case studies with lessons from insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN) literature. While no two insurgencies are the same, the authors find that modern insurgencies...
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NATO Sets Out Plans to Transfer Control
23 April 2010
NATO Sets Out Plans to Transfer Control in Afghanistan, BBC News, 23 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Nato is preparing to hand control of parts of Afghanistan to the Afghan people this year, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. Nato foreign ministers, and their partners in the international coalition in Afghanistan, have been meeting in the Estonian capital Tallinn. They endorsed a plan to gradually transfer security and governance...
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Surge in Contractor Attacks in Afghanistan
23 April 2010
, The Associated Press, 23 April 2010
EXCERPT: "There was the suicide bombing last week on a fortified Kandahar guesthouse shared by Western contracting companies, killing four Afghans and injuring several Americans. There was the Afghan engineer, shot dead in March as he helped inspect a school not far from the Pakistan border. Or the Afghan woman, an employee for a U.S.-based consulting firm,...
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Coalition to Boost Afghan Role
23 April 2010
Coalition to Boost Afghan Role, The Australian, 23 April 2010
EXCERPT: "A coalition government would increase Australia's troop commitment in Afghanistan and take over allied military leadership in the Oruzgun province from the Dutch. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, in a speech to the Lowy Institute, said 'it would be a poor reflection on our defence capabilities' if Australia were unable to help replace the Dutch when...
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