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2 Apr 2015
This article looks at what lessons can be learned from the counter-insurgency era that spanned the US-led interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the authors, COIN was more of a narrative than an empirical concept, it concealed ideologically-tainted modernization projects that worked at cross purposes with actual needs.
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| Author | MLR Smith, David Martin Jones |
| Series | ISN Articles |
| Publisher | International Relations and Security Network (ISN) |
| Copyright | © 2015 International Relations and Security Network. Creative Commons - Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |