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The World Desk

Michael Petrou writes about international news and Canadian foreign policy.

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How to beat an insurgency by killing fewer people

by Michael Petrou on Monday, March 2, 2009 2:18pm - 0 Comments

I wrote this article about tackling the Afghan insurgency for our website.

Tags: Afghanistan, David Petraeus, insurgency, James N. Mattis, surge, Walter Natynczyk

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