A Critical Review of Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

The Failure of Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

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1.0 Introduction

The launch of Operation Enduring Freedom by the United States in 2001 marked the beginning of the Afghanistan war by Americans who wanted to eliminate the Taliban’s backed government. According to Lister after succeeding in their mission of overthrowing the Taliban government, the Taliban reinvented themselves and emerge as an insurgent movement that was hidden both outsides and inside the country, this transformation posed a struggle to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which entailed forces from 47 nations and caused dangerous attacks to the forces to destabilize the international security and hence remained to be a difficult puzzle to solve^[1].

According to Jones the much-admired US Army, as well as the US Marine corps, defined the insurgency as a well-coordinated, prolonged, politico-military scuffle that is…