Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency
by
Walter C. Ladwig III
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide aid and advice to local governments' counterinsurgency campaigns rather than directly intervening with US forces. This strategy, and US counterinsurgency doctrine in general, fail to recognize that despite...