Bombing border areas pushed insurgents to safer hideouts. Bombing Pakistan created new cadres of insurgents spelling failure for NATO. Today 75% of Afghan countryside is hands of anti-occupation forces
“the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.” Mao Zedong’s famous aphorism on guerrilla war
Bad US policy & drone attacks on Pakistan fueled Afghan insurgency
Rand report: End GWOT. Defeat Al-Qaeda with police & Dollars
