In Mosul, the battle for hearts and minds may be won on Facebook
If the 21st century has taught us anything, it is that to fight a successful war an army needs a successful exit strategy. Bereft of one, while it may win the military battle, it will ultimately lose the strategic war.
Nowhere is this aphorism clearer than in the cases of the post-9/11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. In both cases, the US-led coalitions -- especially in Iraq -- won an easy initial victory against their adversaries. But the defeating of Saddam Hussein's army proved to be merely the beginning, not the end, of the real war in Iraq.
This week, something almost unprecedented happened.… Seguir leyendo »