Professional paper

ASYMMETRIC WAR IN AFGHANISTAN AND COIN STRATEGIES

Nikola Brzica orcid.org/0000-0001-9475-1793 ; Diverto d.o.o.

Abstract

Since growing instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan is becoming increasingly evident, it can be concluded that the current approach of the international community and NATO to this security problem is not effective. It is therefore necessary to constantly re-examine the employed strategies, and adjust them to newly arising challenges. Based on the fact that the contemporary non-conventional threats require development of new non-conventional resistance strategies, additional efforts must be made to analyze and understand past, current and future nonconventional conflicts. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the Afghan conflict based on the following parameters: geography, demographics, ethnicity, politics, the role of the international community, external factors, and the insurgent strategy. Based on the analysis, the article outlines the selected and most effective counterinsurgency strategies used by the coalition forces in Afghanistan, and it presents a Contemporary Asymmetric War Model.

Keywords

Afghanistan; terrorism; ISAF; asymmetric warfare; insurgency; COIN strategies; taleban; asymmetric warfare model

Hrčak ID:

98579

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/98579

Publication date:

27.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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