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Counterinsurgency on the Ground in Afghanistan
November 15, 2010

This book provides a glimpse into what relatively small military units—teams, platoons, companies, and highly dispersed battalions—have done to roll back the insurgency in some of the more remote areas of Afghanistan. The focus is on counterinsurgency at the tactical and local levels.

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Reflections on the International Special Forces Conference Tampa, Florida, 8-11 June 2005
September 1, 2005
The Deputy Commander, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) invited the author to observe the first international Special Forces conference ever held, at the Tamp Conference Center in June 2005. This report contains those observations. The main observation was that, given the global war on terror, the need is for country special forces to share information and operations, rather than operate in secrecy like Special Forces have done in the past. The report includes the specific comments of the Commander of Pakistan's Special Services Group, Major General Faisal Alawi, on Pakistan operations against terrorists in Waziristan.
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