Afghanistan: Green on Blue Attacks Are Only a Small Part of the Problem
09.04.2012 at 07:14pm
Afghanistan: Green on Blue Attacks Are Only a Small Part of the Problem by Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
During the last few weeks, coverage of the Afghan War has focused on ‘green on blue attacks’ – the killings of U.S. and other International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers by members of the Afghan security services. This is part of a natural tendency to ride the headlines, but the coverage has often been misleading, and it reflects a persistent failure to address the far broader range of problems emerging in the war and the needs for major changes in virtually every aspect of the way it is fought…
