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with a build-in “come what may” aspect and increases the dilemma of the population, or
even shifts their sympathy to favor the insurgency.
Finally, the current strategy of targeting key insurgency leaders focuses on step 8
of the framework without steps 3-7 having been successfully completed. And although
this definitely puts a lot of pressure on the Taliban Movement and the other insurgency
groups, it does little in terms of persuading the majority of the population to side with
the COIN forces.

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