
We Lost The War in Afghanistan. Now What?
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
The Concept of the Enemy
Emil Schulte: Western forces treated Afghanistan as though it were a war without an enemy. He says that's no way to fight a war, you have to conceptualize the enemy. And treating these conflicts as war wth high expectations of decisive outcomes is not helpful he adds.Schulte: We didn't use force broadly against too many factions because we had very low political insight.
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