'Netwar' Pioneer Cautions Against Surge for Afghanistan

By Sebastian Sprenger / October 20, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Instead of sending more troops to Afghanistan, the administration should adopt a policy that allows the military to use small outposts across the country to coordinate attacks against Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with the help of local tribes, a counterterrorism scholar argues in a new study sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The report, titled "Aspects of Netwar and the Conflict with al Qaeda" and delivered to OSD last month, was penned by Naval Postgraduate School...

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