"...McChrystal's background is in light infantry units like the 75th Ranger Regiment and in counterterrorist commando operations like the Joint Special Operations Command which he headed for five years. This is not COIN. Counterinsurgency is about armed nation building. Counter-terrorism is about killing enemy terrorists.
What is the message in this change? McChrystal's background, his "issues" over supposed abuse of prisoners by his commandos in Iraq and a reputation for operational aggressiveness do not "telegraph" the coming of a policy aimed at a political settlement in Afghanistan.
This sounds like a paradigm shift in which Obama's policy of destroying the leadership of Al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan and Pakistan takes priority over everything else..."
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
A paradigm shift: Obama's policy of destroying the leadership of Al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan & Pakistan takes priority over everything else
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