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PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE  This article was downloaded by: On: 5 July 2010 Access details: Access Details: Free Access Publisher Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37- 41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Survival Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.i nformaworld.com/smpp/title~c ontent=t713659919 Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan Adam Roberts  To cite this Article Roberts, Adam(2009) 'Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan', Survival, 51: 1, 29 — 60  To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/00396330902749673 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00396330902749673 Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.informaworld.com/terms-and-conditions-of- access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.  The limitations of military doctrines and practice are often exposed, not by arguments, but by events. Thus it was mainly events in Iraq and Afghanistan that exposed the inadequacies of the so-called ‘revolution in military affairs’ – an idea that was popular in the United States from the mid 1990s until at least 2003.1 Now, Afghanistan – and the situation in Pakistan with which it is inextricably linked – is proving to be a harsh test of the revived ideas of counter-insurgency. Afghanistan was always likely to be a difficult theatre of operations for outside military forces. Seeing this (and perhaps also because he did not want an ongoing distraction from the future invasion of Iraq, for which he was already lobbying), then-US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said in November 2001: In fact, one of the lessons of Afghanistan’s history, which we’ve tried to apply in this campaign, is if you’re a foreigner, try not to go in. If you go in, don’t stay too long, because they don’t tend to like any foreigners who stay too long.2  The wars in Afghanistan in the nineteenth century have been the foundation for a view of the country and its peoples – especially the latter – as Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan Adam Roberts

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