Important insights @steven_metz: "...partner regimes [such as the late Kabul gov.] ...are often unwilling to undertake the deep reform needed to eliminate the injustice, inequity, repression, corruption, or exclusion that fueled the insurgency in the first place." 1/4
https://twitter.com/steven_metz/status/1412468257605537793
"...the U.S. approach to #counterinsurgency expects America’s security partners to alter a political & economic system which directly benefits those holding power."
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"...the Afghan elite knows that even if it could eradicate the #Taliban, it would not be in its interest to do so."
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For more on how the US strategy (or lack thereof) as it evolved in late 2001 led to the failure of its war in #afghanistan see:
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https://twitter.com/defensealt/status/1437117747679350792
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