08 September 2010 - - Times - Think-tank survey offers an exact diagnosis — but no cure

The annual survey has become a landmark of the think-tank landscape: a handbook for what to worry about in the coming year. The institute pursues the honourable principle of making predictions and recommendations definite enough even if they might be proved wrong.

08 September 2010 : Times

By Bronwen Maddox

The annual survey of the International Institute for Strategic Studies makes a powerful case that the current strategy in Afghanistan does not work.

It is undeniably right that countries fighting in Afghanistan could usefully turn their attention to other developing threats. And it is right to argue that Afghanistan has been an exhausting distraction from problems that are far less easily contained.

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