Winning 'hearts and minds' in Afghanistan carries risks for civilians

New research shows that strategy has an unintended consequence: villages where residents support the international forces are more likely to face attacks.

What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan ...

SIGAR released its 11th lessons learned report examining the past 20 years of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan. After spending $145 billion ...

WAR, WILL, AND WARLORDS - Marines.mil

that help explain the environment in Afghanistan and. Pakistan. First, the Afghan people have faced tumult, con- flict, and war since July 1973, when Muhammad ...

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Winning 'Hearts and Minds' in Afghanistan Carries Risks for Civilians ... civilians in Afghanistan hoping that winning their support would help the fight ...

EVALUATING U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN

[Senate Prints 112-21] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] 112th Congress 1st Session COMMITTEE PRINT S. Prt. 112-21 ...

A Western Insurgency in Afghanistan

This article turns the international coalition's approach in Afghanistan on its head by advocating an insurgency approach to operations; that is, a strategy for ...

Counterinsurgency and Reconstruction Programs in Vietnam ...

The topics range from the work of French and American intelligence organizations in setting up counter-guerrilla programs during the French-Indochina War.

Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan failed long before the Taliban ...

The Taliban seized power. Hager Ali argues that the US army and its allies foundered because they couldn't resolve two simple questions.

Who's Winning Afghan Hearts and Minds? - PBS

NATO or the Taliban: Who's Winning Afghan Hearts and Minds? BY Roya Aziz. Afghan villagers. Haji Juma Gul and other Pashmul residents abandoned ...

Airpower against the Taliban: Systems of Denial - Air University

One could dismiss all these concerns as irrelevant to the core, strategic mission of the Air Force. Afghanistan is a peripheral conflict. A loss there, though ...

Employing the Seven Army Values to Win Hearts and Minds

They are: Loyalty, Duty,. Respect, Selfless Service, Honor,. Integrity, and Personal Courage. These values are the bedrock upon which a modern Counterinsurgency.

SIGAR 16-58-LL Corruption in Conflict: Lessons from the U.S. ...

Experience in Afghanistan is the first in a series of lessons learned reports planned to be issued by the Special. Inspector General for ...

Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between ...

Paul Fishstein is a visiting Fellow at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts. University, Medford, Massachusetts. Andrew Wilder is Director, Afghanistan ...

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan? - USAWC Press

TALIBAN PROPAGANDA: WINNING THE WAR OF WORDS?

Use of tactics such as suicide bombings – previously unknown in Afghanistan – and roadside bombs, as well as such audacious actions in 2008 as a.

US intervention in Afghanistan: Justifying the Unjustifiable?

In 2001, the USA invaded Afghanistan in pursuit of the War on Terror with the sup- port of NATO and over 40 countries. For almost two decades, the USA has ...

Can Economic Assistance Shape Combatant Support in Wartime ...

2011; Department of the Army 2014; Special Inspector. General for Afghanistan Reconstruction 2014; Lyall,. Shiraito, and Imai 2015; Sexton 2016). These aid.

Aid, minds and hearts: The impact of aid in conflict zones - jstor

Semantics aside, development. Page 3. Bohnke and Zurcher. 413 and military actors share the basic assumption that higher levels of acceptance reduce security ...

How Opium Profits the Taliban - United States Institute of Peace

Two recent media reports on state corruption are Graeme Smith, “Afghan Officials in Drug Trade Cut Deals across. Enemy Lines,” Globe and Mail, March 21, 2009, ...

How hard is it to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan? Very hard.

New research shows that Afghans punish NATO for violence attacks much more than they punish the Taliban.