Steve Coll. The New Yorker, 15 February 2010.
http://defensealt.org/HohGPm
Excerpt:
I have also heard it suggested, however, that the big and visible Helmand operation is being conceived as a sort of “demonstration project” of joint U.S. and Afghan security and governance capabilities – that “clear, hold, and build” there will be constructed as a sort of theme park of revived counterinsurgency practice.
Whatever the durability of the current operation, the Helmand River Valley is not likely to be this war’s decisive locus.
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