(From left) Robert Frosch, CIC-ALP Fellow; Beverly Davenport Sypher, vice provost for faculty affairs; Laurent Couëtil, CIC-ALP Fellow; Peter Hollenbeck, CIC-ALP Fellow; Steve Abel, associate vice ...

An Afghan Local Police checkpoint commander leads a 7th Special Force Group ODA to a meeting at his village in Kandahar province. (Howard Altman photo) Seven years ago this week, a team of Green ...

KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Villages across Afghanistan have many different views of safety. Some villages take the task of security into their own hands, resisting anyone who they view as a threat ...

(Kabul) – President Barack Obama should halt plans by the US military to expand the Afghan Local Police program until significant reforms are made in training, supervision, and accountability, Human ...

Afghan Local Police sites are located in key districts across Afghanistan. Village Stability Operations (VSO) is a counterinsurgency program that started two years ago. The program is not designed to ...