Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. During his confirmation hearing, General McChrystal said: American success in Afghanistan should be measured by “the number of Afghans shielded from violence,” not [...]
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Is this what “shielding Afghans from violence” looks like?
Posted: October 1, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, COIN, counterinsurgency, escalation, McChrystal, Rethink Afghanistan
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