Senior military officials are conceding privately that their much-touted new counter-insurgency strategy of "clear, hold and build" in contested areas of the Pashtun southern and eastern parts of the country is not working out as planned, despite the "surge" of some 20,000 additional US troops over the past six months. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.