Is U.S. Counter-Insurgency Era At An End?

This Week At War: End Of The COIN Era? -- Robert Haddick, Foreign Policy

Obama's Afghan withdrawal speech may mark the end of the U.S. counterinsurgency experiment.

President Barack Obama's prime-time speech on his plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan left no doubt that he intends to run for reelection as the leader who ended two painful wars. Most notable was his intention to extract 10,000 soldiers this year and 23,000 more by next summer, before the height of Afghanistan's traditional summer fighting season. For some analysts, this would seem to be a large military risk, taken for purely domestic political benefit.

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My Comment: Robert Haddick makes a number of valid points in this post .... especially on his analysis of the RAND Corp. report "Looming Discontinuities in U.S. Military Strategy and Defense Planning". Read it all.

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