Stories by Benjamin H. Friedman
Benjamin Friedman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and a member of the Security Studies Program at MIT.
Posted on Jul 25, 2007, Source: MIT Center for International Studies
A bipartisan consensus wants to expand the American ground forces. But the expansion serves a failed strategy that relies on military occupations and state-building to fight terrorism. A better strategy is to avoid these missions and the troop expansion.
