Counter-Insurgency: From Latin America To Afghanistan -- Middle East Online
The US COIN program has its origins in the decades long US interventions - secretive and not so - in its own southern hemisphere. And the war in Afghanistan (and in Iraq) takes on the same state terror versus insurgent terror attributes of that long era of violence, notes Pablo Behrens.
In recent decades there have been only one or two precedents in which the United States and the United Kingdom could analyze directly the use of guerilla warfare by insurgents, and the response by government authorities. In the US' case it was the urban guerilla movement and the ‘threat’ of progressive political parties in South and Central America and the State terror it unleashed during the 1970s. In the case of the UK, it was the IRA mainland attacks of the 1980s.
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My Comment: Are the lessons learned from the 1970s-80s Latin American insurgency wars being applied to Iraq and Afghanistan? .... Pablo Behrens in his post clearly believes that they are .... and for all the wrong reasons.
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