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Is This the Real Reason US Troops Can Leave Iraq?
Aug 31st 2010 – 9:10AM
Ali Al-Saadi, AFP / Getty Images
(Aug. 31) -- President Barack Obama will address the nation tonight to mark what his administration is calling the end of combat operations in Iraq. And already scholars are revisiting how a war once compared to the Vietnam quagmire reached this point of tentative success. Ali Al-Saadi, AFP / Getty Images An Iraqi man...
Background on counter insurgency
A counter-insurgency or counterinsurgency (COIN) involves actions taken by the recognized government of a nation to contain or quell an insurgency taken up against it.
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