Quetta Attack Plan
By A Khokar • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second LookWhen President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]
