The Afghan war model cannot work in the Middle East’s fragmented sectarian landscape

Evidence

However, this model of warfare is ill suited to the Middle East, where military forces are weak and divided across sectarian factions that have been fighting with each other for years. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2457

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2457
• XREF: connects to: Solving the Arab-Israeli conflict would not solve the region’s other fundamental problems — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1600; Ethnic and religious fragmentation weakly predict civil war; feasibility of insurgency does — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809; Soviet defeat in Afghanistan legitimized Islamist militancy in the region — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 399 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Solving the Arab-Israeli conflict would not solve the region’s other fundamental problems — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1600; Ethnic and religious fragmentation weakly predict civil war; feasibility of insurgency does — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809; Soviet defeat in Afghanistan legitimized Islamist militancy in the region — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 399 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Ethnic and religious fragmentation weakly predict civil war; feasibility of insurgency does #complicates (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809
• Ethnic and religious fragmentation do not predict civil war onset #complicates (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809