Editorial Board
‘Green-on-Blue’ Attacks Show Need for Smaller Afghan Army
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The surprising thing about the “insider attacks” by Afghans against U.S. and coalition forces is not their sudden increase. It’s that the coalition’s military leadership didn’t anticipate the surge in the first place.
That blind spot points to the larger need to retool the U.S. strategy for building up Afghan forces so they can take over their nation’s security by 2014.