July 12, 2011

Command Post Episode Two: "Is Counter-Insurgency Dead?"

By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno and USA (Ret.)

Here's our second take on President Obama's Afghan policy in our new video series featuring John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and your Battleland scribe. We're chatting this week with Dr. Nora Bensahel, a noted COIN expert formerly at the Rand Corp. and now at CNAS, and Dave Barno, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan in 2003-2004.

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