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Opposite Sides of the COIN: Understanding Unlikely Insurgent Successes and Failures

Opposite Sides of the COIN: Understanding Unlikely Insurgent Successes and Failures

Looking into the future, it is critical to build more typologies for insurgent success in order to understand how states can achieve the upper hand. Most important however is conceptualizing how insurgents successfully relate their strategy of violence to their environment. Had the United States, for example, spent more time analyzing what victory looked like for the Taliban and how they planned on achieving it based on their environment, they may have bolstered America’s own strategy.