In this second installment on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan We will move to what is considered the most dangerous region of Afghanistan, both in war and in the rare periods of peace. Readers will be able to see how a successful strategy to combat the insurgency really existed. Contrary to everything written by the press and displayed on cinema and television screens, in the first years of Western military presence there was a glimmer of hope for peace and development in the area. Both were wasted, both politically and in the halls of the Pentagon. This is the story of those years, a prelude to the hell that a valley of indescribable beauty would become.
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