Afghanistan's Local War: Building Local Defense Forces (repost)
Seth G. Jones, Arturo Munoz, "Afghanistan's Local War: Building Local Defense Forces"
R.nd P.blishing | 2010 | ISBN: 0833049887 | 114 pages | PDF | 1 MB
R.nd P.blishing | 2010 | ISBN: 0833049887 | 114 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In Afghanistan, local communities have played a critical role in security, especially in rural areas. Afghan national security forces are important to the top-down strategy, but the Afghan government and NATO forces also need to leverage local communities to gain a complementary bottom-up strategy. This analysis discusses the viability of establishing local security forces in Afghanistan and addresses concerns about the wisdom of such policies.