Military Review English Edition May-June 2014 | Page 76

and host-nation forces must try to win. An assumption in this narrative is that the people—imagined,
evidently, as relatively homogenous and capable of
cohesion—will eventually support the government
as their own once it proves itself legitimate and
capable. The problem with this narrative, when it
comes to the perspective of the Nuristanis, is that
each tribe already has its own legitimate government, its own culture,