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Now that's what I call taking care of the population!

"Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people -- whether it's building a school or handing out Viagra," said one longtime agency operative and veteran of several Afghanistan tours.

So there's enemy-centric COIN, population-centric COIN, and now *****-centric COIN?

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