Is the Counterinsurgency Strategy Winning the Afghan War?

Eighteen months ago, the U.S.-led NATO war efforts in Afghanistan, launched a counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign, hoping to turn the tide in a war that was looking dauntingly unwinnable.
Is the Counterinsurgency Strategy Winning the Afghan War?
FINDING COVERAGE: Two Afghan national army soldiers stand on top of a blast wall trying to get cell phone coverage. The promotion of economic development by U.S.-led military operations in the country, has seen an increase of cell phone use from zero to 50 percent over the last 10 years in Afghanistan. Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
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<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/AFGHANISTAN-soldier_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/AFGHANISTAN-soldier_medium.jpg" alt="FINDING COVERAGE: Two Afghan national army soldiers stand on top of a blast wall trying to get cell phone coverage. The promotion of economic development by U.S.-led military operations in the country, has seen an increase of cell phone use from zero to 50 percent over the last 10 years in Afghanistan. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)" title="FINDING COVERAGE: Two Afghan national army soldiers stand on top of a blast wall trying to get cell phone coverage. The promotion of economic development by U.S.-led military operations in the country, has seen an increase of cell phone use from zero to 50 percent over the last 10 years in Afghanistan. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-124620"/></a>
FINDING COVERAGE: Two Afghan national army soldiers stand on top of a blast wall trying to get cell phone coverage. The promotion of economic development by U.S.-led military operations in the country, has seen an increase of cell phone use from zero to 50 percent over the last 10 years in Afghanistan. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)
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