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Facing up to an Afghan Debacle

Facing up to an Afghan Debacle

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Sep 10, 2013
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The United States-backed Karzai government in Afghanistan has miserably failed in delivering, with serious implications for future security and the political situation because it is basically a failure of the US Counter Insurgency Strategy (COIN).

So far, the 12-year war has taken the lives of nearly 3,300 coalition troops and wounded 23,500. Another 1,1…

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