TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Recasting Afghan strategy
JO  - Small wars and insurgencies
A1  - Orr, Allan
SP  - 87
EP  - 117
VL  - 20
IS  - 1
N2  - The following article aims to examine current counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy in Afghanistan to posit an untried theoretical concept of operations for the war being waged there. By doing so it shall argue that Coalition and NATO forces operating there may be required to fundamentally recast Afghan war-policy if a resurgent Taliban and Al-Qa'eda are to be countered in both the military and political spheres of present day Afghanistan. By way of strategy this article shall posit that a more optimal strategy in Afghanistan, in light of the campaign's apparent difficulties, might be to seed local security apparatuses, designated herein as ‘Rural Paramilitary Forces’.<p /> 
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SN  - 0959-2318
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592310802573491
ID  - ref1
ER  -