Obama's Afghan Challenge

January 09, 2009

Rajan Menon explains that military victory in Afghanistan can be elusive, as the British and Russians found.

The article was published by the Los Angeles Times on January 9, 2009 and can be read here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-menon9-2009jan09,0,3481443.story


Rajan Menon is a professor of international relations at Lehigh University and a fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of The End of Alliances.

Posted by coalition at January 9, 2009 02:59 PM

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