In 2008, two Marine Corps infantry battalions (Battalion Landing Team 1/6 and Task Force 2/7) operated in Helmand -Province, Afghanistan. Each battalion operated in a different sized battlespace in rural areas and each battalion metwith a different degree of success. Both battalions found that in rural counterinsurgency operations a unit's Area of -Influence ebbs and flows over time and is driven by physical and moral factors that must be taken into...
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