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Title Counterinsurgency Dilemma : Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia
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Author(s)
Call No 328.5 BAC
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ISBN
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Publisher Name Standford University Press
Publishing Year 2026
Edition 1st
Pages 359
Price 0.00 PKR
Text Language English
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Description In the wake of the Taliban's military defeat in 2001, foreign fighters played a critical role in assisting the Taliban to launch an insurgency against Coalition forces. Ten years later, by al-Qaida's own admission, the Taliban "almost didn't need" al-Qaida's non-Afghan fighters. Over time the Taliban grew sufficiently in strength that its need for foreign fighters--and foreign fighters' influence--virtually disappeared. Somalia shows a similar pattern. Foreign fighters initially played a promine
Keywords Afghanistan-Insurgency; Somalia-Insurgency; Afghanistan-Counterinsurgency; Somalia-Counterinsurgency