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215 | John Nagl: Russia's Insurgency Problem

The Realignment

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Isn't Urban Insurgency More Difficult?

i agree with your contention that the ucranians have a very highly developed nationalism, and that they are coming together as a nation. The challenge in afghanistan, i think, and i don't if you've head carter malcasion on here, but i'd really encourage you to get him. Carter wrote a terrific book called the american war inAfghanistan,. I reviewed it for parometers, for the journal of the army war college. And so what it is that makes cohesion that motivates a people to fight? That gave them cohesion and a willingness to endure enormous hardships against an invader. So breaking things is easy, comparatively easy Toppling governments

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