National Defense University researchers have proposed studying new approaches to building up indigenous police forces during counterinsurgency operations, as current government efforts to boost the civilian police in Iraq and Afghanistan have fallen short, according to a draft NDU research plan obtained by InsideDefense.com . The proposal is part of a list of potential NDU research projects for fiscal year 2008 that was circulated among senior officials in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Joseph McMillan, the acting director...
