Counterinsurgency, or COIN, is viewed by its practitioners in the military as the methods of warfare used to divide a civilian population's political and sentimental allegiance away from a guerrilla force. It can also be viewed as a method to suppress national liberation movements.
Nir Rosen on Iraq and Afghanistan
Published September 11, 2009
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With the new administration, the focus of U.S. interests in the Middle East seems to have shifted from Iraq to stabilization of Afghanistan. But periodic suicide bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere remind us that while we may have moved on, the ethnic and religious struggles in Iraq continue. Nir Rosen has recently returned from the region under the auspices of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He shares first hand accounts of what he's learned.
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CJR's assistant editor Joel Meares interviews Pulitzer Center grantee Nir Rosen about the WikiLeaks war logs dump. Rosen has reported from Afghanistan over the past year on the limits of the US...
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Born and raised in New York City, Nir Rosen is a writer, journalist and film-maker. He is also a Fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security and a former fellow at the New America...
