TY - BOOK AU - LARSDOTTER Kersti TI - Regional support for Afghan insurgents: challenges for counterinsurgency theory and doctrine PY - 2014/// KW - AFGHANISTAN KW - COUNTERINSURGENCY N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2013.878656 ER -