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Why Spending Billions on the Afghan National Army Could Seriously Backfire

Ann Jones, TomDispatch.com. March 8, 2012.

No Afghan national army has ever saved a government, or even tried to. Instead, such an army has either sat on its hands during a coup d’état, or participated in one itself.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Lawrence Korb Debate Military Escalation in Afghanistan

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Brave New Foundation. April 20, 2009.

Why more substantive debate and non-military solutions are needed in this war.

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