Professor and Deputy Dean Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Discusses Counterinsurgency

Harris Public Policy Professor and Deputy Dean Ethan Bueno de Mesquita was featured in the Boston Review with an op-ed discussing academic and popular biases when considering America's counterinsurgencies in Afghanistan and Vietnam.

"Counterinsurgencies are wars of attrition," he concludes. "Wars of attrition are won through resolve. And the side facing an existential threat will always have the greater resolve."

Full coverage available in the Boston Review.