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November 15, 2011
Richard Yu / The Dartmouth
The use of specialized military force operations, including unmanned drones and localized airstrikes, is not an effective long-term strategy to combat insurgency problems given the "persistent era of conflict" that nations across the world face today, Micah Zenko, a conflict prevention fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said in a lecture Thursday afternoon in the Haldeman Center.
Zenko identified 36 cases of Discrete Military Operations, defined as limited strikes against insurgency forces, conducted by the United States military since 1991.