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Matthew Dearing

Uncomfortable lessons from a checkered irregular warfare legacy
Europe

Uncomfortable lessons from a checkered irregular warfare legacy

During the Cold War, events didn't unfold the way U.S. policy makers expected. They never do.

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Asia-Pacific

What happens now to all those US-backed militias in Afghanistan?

For better or worse we stood up armed groups that are now operating under varying degrees of local, state and Taliban control.