Afghanistan's 'Disposable Sons' - GUNNAR HEINSOHN

To understand why the U.S. and NATO—after eight years of hard fighting—face mounting losses in Afghanistan, we must look beyond the battlefield.

Thus, the Western nations try to turn the international war, for which they do not have enough manpower, back into a civil war in which it will fall on the Afghans themselves to consume recent and coming youth bulges. Gunnar Heinsohn: Afghanistan's 'Disposable Sons' - WSJ.com

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