The Sunday Times: This is a follow on report from a recent Telegraph report on a second front. The Army of Pakistan is going counterinsurgency, it has to change its conventional warfare plans in to fighting the terrorists. On the other hand while the Army of Pakistan is fighting the Taliban/Terrorists while learning counterinsurgency from the USA and the UK, the West must help those displaced by this Internal War, the Government of Pakistan has to win the hearts and minds of the people, if all the Army of Pakistan does is use the heavy mob and does not follow up on the civic side it will lose the people to the Taliban/Terrorists. Thus the UK and the USA has to spends billions on the civic side, helping with the local economy, the civic structure, roads, schools, hospitals. The people have to be given hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. The cost of not helping is for Western Troops to fight in the badlands of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, not sure the West could win that fight. Thus we need a strong Army and Government in Pakistan.
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