Funding U.S. Counterinsurgency Wars

in Council on Foreign Relations

In the next military budget Congress must fund a shift toward counterinsurgency to win two wars. CFR's Stephen Biddle says the military may need a second transformation to anticipate future wars.

If the U.S. military does not remake itself to maximize effectiveness in counterinsurgency, it could easily lose one or both of today’s conflicts with potentially grave consequences.

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