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    1. Hold Credible Elections.............Good Governance.......... ("legitimacy, vehicle for change")
    2. Plan Together........................Good Governance........... ("respect, legitimacy")
    3. Renew the Public Service..........Effective Governance..... X
    4. Empower the Provinces............Good Governance........... ("legitimacy, respect")
    5. Reintegrate the Taliban Base.....Good Governance.......... ("legitmacy, respect, justice")
    6. End Interference.....................Good Governance.......... ("legitimacy")
    7. Attack Impunity......................Good Governance.......... ("justice")


    I would re-order their list, but they do strike in the beaten zone of what I consider the causal perceptions of insurgency / "Good Governance." (I.e. Perceptions among the populace of Legitimacy of their governance, respect and justice from their governance, and a trusted and certain legal vehicle to effect change of governance).

    1. Plan Together (Ok this is first, but also continuous throughout, with outsiders getting ever closer to the back of the room)
    2. Reintegrate the Taliban Base
    3. Conduct some credible (trusted by this populace and unmanipulated by outside or inside powerbrokers to the degree expected by the populace) process of leadership selection
    4. Empower the Provinces
    5. Attack Impunity
    6. End interference
    7. Renew the public service
    Last edited by Bob's World; 03-10-2010 at 09:30 AM.
    Robert C. Jones
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    "The modern COIN mindset is when one arrogantly goes to some foreign land and attempts to make those who live there a lesser version of one's self. The FID mindset is when one humbly goes to some foreign land and seeks first to understand, and then to help in some small way for those who live there to be the best version of their own self." Colonel Robert C. Jones, US Army Special Forces (Retired)

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