215 | John Nagl: Russia's Insurgency Problem
The Realignment
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Is the Insurgency in Afghanistan, Overwhelmingly?
In two thousand six someone had told us that in 20 22, a rack would be unctioning democracy with a small number of american advisers helping anoraki army confront a very low grade insurgency. In afghanistan, it was a rural insurgency. There was no particular city that was decisive, until obviously the fall of cabul. But pretty much every other city had fallen by then. It was a mountain based insurgency. And and it turns out that hard as cities are, i don't with you, mountains are even harder than cities. The russians are going to find out how hard it is conducting a counterance urgency campaign in cities and in forests.
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