Americans understanding of the current civil war in Syria is firmly rooted in their recent military history: the U.S. experience in Iraq and Afghanistan over the course of the past decade. These conflicts have made U.S. policy makers painfully aware of the costs of the kind of intervention required by modern counterinsurgency doctrine, and of the limits of U.S.ability to create enduring political change in foreign lands. However, another slightly older case exists that may be more relevant to the civil war currently raging in Syria. U.S. intervention during the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was successful in achieving its proximate goal(Soviet withdrawal), though the consequences of that conflict have been grave and far-reaching.


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    Title :

    How to Support the Opposition in Syria: New Models for Understanding Syria


    Contributors:
    S. Blume (author)

    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    10 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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