PRISM 3, no. 1

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Features

  • 3    Counterinsurgency after Afghanistan: A Concept in Crisis
    By David H. Ucko
  • 21  Negotiating Afghanistan: When? With Whom? About What?
    By Thomas R. Pickering
  • 37  The State Department, USAID, and the Flawed Mandate for Stabilization and Reconstruction
    By Renanah Miles
  • 47  The Promise and Peril of the Indirect Approach
    By Brian M. Burton
  • 63  The Case for Nation-building: Why and How to Fix Failed States
    By Paul D. Miller
  • 75  No Marshall Plan for the Middle East
    By Amitai Etzioni
  • 87  Sub-Saharan African Military and Development Activities
    By Birame Diop
  • 99  Enduring Interests and Partnerships: Military-to-Military Relationships in the Arab Spring
    By Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., and Elizabeth C. Packard

Special Feature

  • 107Unconventional Challenges and Nontraditional Roles for Armed Forces: The Case for Rwanda
    By Frank K. Rusagara

From the Field

  • 121War Comes to Bala Morghab: A Tragedy of Policy and Action in Three Acts
    By John Bessler

Lessons Learned

  • 137Iraq: A Case Study in Building Civil-Military Capacity, 2007–2010
    By Bradford Baylor, Jeanne Burington, Bradford Davis, and Russell Goehring

Book Review

  • 151Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security
    Reviewed by Pauline H. Baker