http://warincontext.org/2009/12/01/americas-afghan-can-do-folly/ ... with attention to the unseen Wed, 23 May 2012 19:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://warincontext.org/2009/12/01/americas-afghan-can-do-folly/comment-page-1/#comment-6760 DE Teodoru Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:33 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=2513#comment-6760 Gilles Dorronsoro: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/fixing_failed_strategy.pdf and Antonio Giustozzi: http://www.crisisstates.com/download/seminars/GiustozziDec05.pdf both, top experts on Afghanistan, wrote on how the US desperate position can be relieved by focusing on cities. As magnets to youths seeking jobs, from where they send remittances to their rural families taht become an argument in favor of modernization that the Taliban can't counter. It all begins with one economically successful and safe city at a time. South Vietnam went from 85% rural to 75% urban in a few years leaving the Viet Cong fish high and dry as the peasant "sea" went to the towns to become, per Hanoi Radio "petit bourgeois," hence Hanoi's desperate Tet Offensive. We can better defend cities and if well run they can overcome Taliban alternative in the countryside. Gilles Dorronsoro:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/fixing_failed_strategy.pdf
and Antonio Giustozzi:
http://www.crisisstates.com/download/seminars/GiustozziDec05.pdf
both, top experts on Afghanistan, wrote on how the US desperate position can be relieved by focusing on cities. As magnets to youths seeking jobs, from where they send remittances to their rural families taht become an argument in favor of modernization that the Taliban can’t counter. It all begins with one economically successful and safe city at a time. South Vietnam went from 85% rural to 75% urban in a few years leaving the Viet Cong fish high and dry as the peasant “sea” went to the towns to become, per Hanoi Radio “petit bourgeois,” hence Hanoi’s desperate Tet Offensive. We can better defend cities and if well run they can overcome Taliban alternative in the countryside.

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