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INSIGHT NOTES 1. David Park, The Geopolitical Destiny of East Asia (Leavenworth, KS: Commmand and General Staff College, December 2011), 62-63, see 2. Michael Moore and James Fussell, Kunar and Nuristan: Rethinking US Counterinsurgency Operation, Afghanistan Report I (Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of War, July 2009), 7. 3. See for the language groups of the Kunar-Nuristan region. 4. Charlotte Gooskens, “The Contribution of Linguistic Factors to the Intelligibility of Closely Related Languages,” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28, no. 6 (2007). 5. Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban (Boston: DaCapo Press), 114-21. 6. Martin Ewans, Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics (New York: Harper, 2009), 98-109. 7. It is a fact that in the recent decades Nuristani logging has resulted in mass deforestation of the region, in keeping with the acceleration of desertification in the entire Central Asia, see . 8. See Gian Gentile, Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency (New York: The New Press: 2013), and posts at Small Wars Journal blog, , and. As of 2012, an increasing number of junior and midgrade officers with combat service in Afghanistan are agreeing with Col. Gentile, while some experts in various think tanks continue to push COIN. Tired of waiting between issues for great articles? You no longer have to—MR Spotlight is online now! This new feature publishes articles bi-weekly, so you now have access to more information more often! Check out our most current and previous articles now on our website! Go to http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/index. asp and click on the”MR Spotlight” link to get started. Want to comment? Military Review is on Facebook and Twitter. The official Military Review Facebook and Twitter sites are now available for readers to comment on the overall layout, design, or content of the magazine. We also strongly encourage professional discussion and debate on all articles published in Military Review. To comment, go to our webpage at http:// militaryreview.army.mil/ and click on the Facebook icon, or reach out to us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ @MilReview. “Military Review is an important forum that helps shape the dialogue of our profession.” —GEN Raymond T. Odierno MILITARY REVIEW May-June 2014 77