Reform+CP


 * Counterplan Text: The United States federal government should do the following:**


 * 1. Reform its current Afghanistan strategy by building up an archipelago of secure model districts in Northern Afghanistan.**
 * 2. Redistribute counterinsurgency troops from the Southern Pashtun Belt to the North of Afghanistan.**
 * 3. Stop the Taliban in the North with a more aggressive counterinsurgency, especially where their progress threatens North–South communications.**
 * 4. Secure the urban centers in Northern Afghanistan by allocating more resources there.**

As Obama and his advisers ….their narrative and their manifesto.
 * CP solves – it fixes the problems with COIN and means we win the war**
 * Haddick 9** [(Robert, managing editor of Small Wars Journal, “This Week at War: Where is Jones?,” October 8, 2009, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/08/this_week_at_war?page=0,1]

http://carnegieendowment.org/files/dorronsoro_fixing_failed_strategy2.pdf] The new strategy I suggest ….economy and the insurgency itself.
 * CP solves heg – redistribution of troops stops casualties and means we win the war**
 * Dorronsoro 9** [Gilles, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, is an expert on Afghanistan, Turkey, and South Asia. His research focuses on security and political development in Afghanistan, particularly the role of the International Security Assistance Force, the necessary steps for a viable government in Kabul, and the conditions necessary for withdrawal scenarios. Previously, Dorronsoro was a professor of political science at the Sorbonne, Paris, and the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes. He also served as the scientific coordinator at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul, Turkey. “Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan”, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2009,