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Article: To create a stable Afghanistan: provisional reconstruction teams, good governance, and a splash of history.(WARFIGHTING)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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THE COALITION and NATO face the complex challenge of establishing a legitimate functioning government in Afghanistan that can withstand the withdrawal of Western forces. To meet this challenge, they might look to earlier British efforts to manage the North-West Frontier along Afghanistan's eastern border. (1) Proven methods the British used in the frontier districts could generate a coherent four-step plan for Afghanistan's reconstruction. Indeed, as resources shrink, new, imaginative measures--plus tried and true ones--will be needed to control Afghanistan's geographically dispersed tribes to prevent the reemergence of terrorists or armed insurrection.
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