Improving Afghan War Strategy - by Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute - Feb 2011 (Report)

The Brookings Institute has published a report entitled "Improving Afghan War Strategy" authored by Michael E. O'Hanlon.  It is dated February 2011 and the report is a policy brief on Afghanistan.  The report

" . . . addresses the first challenge, improving the U.S./NATO counterinsurgency campaign.  The basic logic of the current strategy is accepted, but several new initiatives or ideas are explored to make it more promising and more effective".

Three main ideas are developed:
- promoting Afghan political organizations around ideas and platforms not ethnic groups or individuals
- tackling the problem of corruption from an international perspective instead of U.S. - Afghan view
- Offer a civilian nuclear deal to Pakistan in exchange for shutting down the Taliban sanctuaries

Read the report at the link below:

http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/02_afghanistan_ohanlon.aspx