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...The war in Afghanistan is a temporary U.S. interest, in which the chief c...Inevitably, this conflict creates priorities of its own. Indeed, if the war ... the strength of Taliban support among that ethnic group and the links between the Pashtuns of Pakist...
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... changes in the nature of international conflict, highlighting the rise in the number, power and saalience of ethnic nonstate actors (ethnic-NSAs) in major world event... Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, Kashmiri Muslim militants such as Leshkar-e-Tioba...
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... . Now, every conflict is different, and Afghanistan is not Vietnam, but ... We should never play with ethnic groups, creating the condition of an ethnic confli...
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... forces intervened in Serbia to protect ethnic Kosovar Albanians from ethnic cleansing, institute... right to use force in self-defense in Afghanistan, against al-Qaeda, thus solidifying the idea that ... sent peacekeepers to Cyprus to prevent conflict from escalating between the island's north and sou...
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...," he argued, was that large-scale conflict between the great powers was "passing from the sce... is now engaged in protracted wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that have so far cost well over a trillio... if the target state has high levels of ethnic and religious homogeneity, a strong central govern...
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... in foreign troops may have deepened the ethnic divisions in Afghanistan and continued to feed the... reintegration of groups affected by the conflict into society and the legal economy. The experience...
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...and NATO troops in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal provided his soldiers...But each of these conflicts--as well as U.S. COIN operations in the Philippine... and the Soviet Union against recalcitrant ethnic minorities. Far fewer have taken their cues from t...
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... region and through a score of other post-conflict locales, from Bosnia to Kosovo to Guatemala, sugge...; and assistance from Uzbekistan for their ethnic counterparts in northern Afghanistan. Additionally...
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With mid-term elections soon, I reflect on President Obama's accomplishments. Most disasters confronting him were forged before 2008. The mess cannot be addressed in a single term.
Health care reform is an important step forward. The economic bailouts avoided a depression and have nearly been paid back. Government takeover of student loans has shifted corporate profits back into education. The moratorium on offshore Gulf oil drilling will lead to safer procedures and a protected environment.
...soldiers to die in our war in Afghanistan. There are no similar lists available for the mili... in a country such as Afghanistan, riven by ethnic conflict and endemic corruption. Amid the maelstro...
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...: peacebuilding, democratization, conflict management, governance, Afghanistan, authority. . ...Even in a country with severe ethnic divisions, high insecurity, low socioeconomic indi...