Amb. Wood on Focused District Development in Afghanistan
Apr 09 2008
Washington, D.C. - World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.
Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood describes the Focused District Development Initiative, which concentrates security efforts on the district level to disrupt the Taliban and corruption.
Wood explains that 70 percent of the violence in Afghanistan takes place in 40 districts, where the Taliban is most active, so the Coalition Forces have begun to target those specific districts.
With the Focused District Development Initiative, the police force in a given district is removed for a period of time to be retrained and replaced with an elite force. This exposes any corrupt connections between the police and the Taliban and cleans the slate for a fresh order when the police return.
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