The Afghan Local Police – Closing the Security Gap?

The Afghan Local Police (ALP) was designed as an international counterinsurgency programme that works by raising small, village-level defence forces from within rural Afghan communities. Despite being driven by counterinsurgency objectives – that is, seeking to defeat insurgents - its emphasis upon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sam Vincent, Florian Weigand, Hameed Hakimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Security Governance 2015-09-01
Series:Stability : International Journal of Security and Development
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Online Access:http://www.stabilityjournal.org/articles/335