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Fewer Missions, Not More Troops

By Benjamin H. Friedman, MIT Center for International Studies. Posted July 25, 2007.


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.

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Benjamin Friedman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and a member of the Security Studies Program at MIT.

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