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    Contextualizing Insurgency

    I am currently working on the initial stages of my thesis for a masters in international relations and I am in the process of forming my research problem. Below is a statement of a research problem...
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    The new local police force will operate...

    The new local police force will operate separately from the ANP but will still fall under the authority of the country’s Interior Ministry.
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    Karzai OK’s Local Police

    Hamid Karzai agreed to the creation of local security forces today. General Petraeus has supposedly been pushing for localized forces since he took command of Afghanistan operations earlier this...
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    I think the important question that no one seems...

    I think the important question that no one seems to be asking is what benefit was this article to the readers, and thus essential why was it printed? It seems to me that journalism's current failure...
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    It would seem that if you assign to an Insurgency...

    It would seem that if you assign to an Insurgency the unique attribute of requiring outside support (which is a very interesting idea) then size plays an important role in differentiating the two, in...
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    Are you suggesting that one defining...

    Are you suggesting that one defining characteristic of insurgencies is outside support, that the must necessarily have it to be an insurgence?
  7. Data Darbar Shrine, The TTP and Global Jihadist Groups

    Last week the Data Darbar Shrine was attacked in Lahore, Pakistan. At least 41 people died, this was the 2nd attack on a religious site in the city of Lahore in just over a month. The Data Darbar...
  8. Pashtunwali

    I am new to the SWJ forum but an avid reader. I am beginning the research for small writing project I have created for myself on Afghanistan and COIN ops I have found research easy except for...
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