Holding Pakistan
03.26.2010 at 12:29pm
Holding Pakistan: The Second Phase of Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Operations – Haider Ali Hussein Mullick, Foreign Affairs.
Summary: Conventional wars are won by capturing territory, but counterinsurgencies are won by holding it. Rather than rushing to open new fronts against the Taliban, Pakistan must now focus on keeping the territory it has already cleared.
Much more at Foreign Affairs.
