Culminating a two-year study for the U.S. military forces to counter insurgencies in the Muslim world is at best inadequate, at worst counterproductive, and on the whole, not feasible. War by Other Means finds that large-scale use of U.S. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has relied chiefly on military occupation and combat operations as a solution. This is the central finding of a new RAND report, War by Other Means-Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency, by David Gompert and John Gordon. government does not have the capabilities it needs to counter insurgencies heavily influenced by violent Islamist extremists. As events in Pakistan portend, the danger of such conflict spreading is the gravest national-security problem the United States now faces. Insurgencies of the kind the United States has struggled to counter in Iraq and Afghanistan, at staggering costs, will not end there. This will require intensified multilateral collaboration and a shift in U.S. capabilities to build effective local government, train local security forces, and exploit information power. This report offers a plan to improve U.S. Instead of relying predominantly on military occupation, the United States must become more able to bolster the ability of threatened states to win the contest for the support of their people. Iraq and Afghanistan have revealed serious shortfalls in the capabilities of the United States to counter insurgency in the Muslim world.
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