The genesis VSO and ALP was designed in 2010 and implemented in 2011. “The VSO and ALP was the most successful bottom-up COIN program implemented in Afghanistan,” said Bolduc.

Economically, the ALP program, which is funded by the Ministry of Interior, will help the village because there will be men with steady jobs and reliable income.

Two years since their inception, the Village Stability Operations (VSO) and Afghan Local Police (ALP) counterinsurgency programs have demonstrated success. But this success needs to be kept in ...

When it approved the ALP program in 2010, the government set a target of 10,000 members. In response to the Human Rights Watch report, the US military in October ordered an investigation into the ...