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Afghanistan: Momentum and Initiative in Counterinsurgency

Mar 4, 2010 | 13:19 GMT

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Summary

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has hailed the initial results of the International Security Assistance Forces operation in Marjah. Despite some stiff resistance, security has improved in the small farming community in Helmand province, but the real test can come only when the American and NATO troops depart.

There has been much optimism surrounding recent developments in Marjah, but they reveal little about the status of the new American strategy....

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