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It’s true that Afghanistan is not Iraq, and you can’t use the same tactics. But the strategies and principles should still apply. That’s why there is an unclassified version of Petraeus’s manual and a classified version that was used in Iraq. Applying the principles is hard, and telling the enemy what you mean to do will give them an advantage.

We’re dealing with a part of the world in which our assumptions about nation-states simply don’t apply. Europe walks in the footprints of Charlemagne and Cesare Borgia; little of Pakistan and less of Afghanistan would recognize that world.