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Counter Insurgency
Afghanistan | Counter Insurgency
Afghanistan’s Reasons for Optimism
By Craig Charney and James Dobbins | The Washington Post | May 31, 2011 | 2 pages
This article discusses the findings of a Washington Post-ABC News Poll in which Afghans express their optimism about their future. This surprising optimism has deep roots in the underlying realities. Afghanistan people are making sensible judgments.
Afghanistan | Counter Insurgency
The Surge is Working
By Craig Charney | Newsweek | March 1, 2010 | 2 pages
This Daily Beast article discusses why President Obama’s Afghanistan counterinsurgency troop surge strategy is working. Taliban’s influence is dwindling all across Afghanistan, bar Helmand province—its stronghold. Afghanistan’s demography, sociology, military situation, and politics jointly explain this evolvement.
Counter Insurgency | Indonesia | Pakistan
Counter Insurgency
Report | January 29, 2009 | 23 pages
This presentation evaluates public attitudes in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The report studies how public discontent and attitudes further extremism or governance in these countries. Differing components of extremism, state capacity, and policy implications are compared between the three countries.
Afghanistan | Counter Insurgency | Gender
There’s Grounds for Hope in Afghanistan
By Craig Charney and Isobel Coleman | CFR.org | June 18, 2007 | 3 pages
This article for The Globe and Mail discusses the reasons to be hopeful with regards to the potential for positive changes in Afghanistan: Afghans themselves are changing their society, with Afghan women playing a leading role. Despite the Taliban’s military revival, Afghan women have won broad support for their rights to study, work, and vote, largely gained since the Taliban’s 2001 ouster, and overwhelmingly reject their former oppressors. But, at the same time, Afghans are struggling to reconcile many of their Islamic traditions with the modern world, as the case of women also shows.
