Afghanistan's Local War Building Local Defense Forces

• Main Author: Jones, Seth G. (auth)
• Other Authors: Munoz, Arturo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2010
• Subjects: International relations; Warfare & defence; Treaties & other sources of international law; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In Afghanistan, local communities have played a critical role in security, especially in rural areas. Afghan national security forces are important to the top-down strategy, but the Afghan government and NATO forces also need to leverage local communities to gain a complementary bottom-up strategy....