Regional support for Afghan insurgents : challenges for counterinsurgency theory and doctrine /

LARSDOTTER Kersti

Regional support for Afghan insurgents : challenges for counterinsurgency theory and doctrine / Kersti Larsdotter. - 2014

The Taliban receive considerable support from external sources particularly Pakistan thus rendering the problem a transnational one. However most counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine is national in character. This article addresses this shortcoming by proposing a regional counterinsurgency framework with Afghanistan as an example.


AFGHANISTAN--COUNTERINSURGENCY