General still believes in Santa, counterinsurgency
KABUL, Afghanistan — Gen. John Nicholson wrote just one thing on his Christmas list which he mailed to his hero, Santa Claus: A stable Afghanistan built through comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes.
“I keep giving him metrics that make it look like U.S. Forces are ac…
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