Troop Increases Help Drive Spread of the Insurgency in Afghanistan

ZP Heller
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Brave New Foundation
September 24, 2009Video

The International Council on Security published maps of the insurgency's presence in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The United States added troops in Afghanistan in each of these years. ICOS's maps show that none of these troop increases arrested the growth of the insurgency. In fact, analysts at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and UK's DFID suggest that the presence of foreign troops drives Afghans to join the insurgency.


Learn more at http://rethinkafghanistan.com.


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