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K-State Engagement E-News, April 2010 (PDF)  by Mindy Von Elling
Afghan and American soldiers during a training mission to
facilitate social relationships.  One of the biggest things that
the nation has undergone in recent years is the war in Iraq and
Afghanistan, yet the majority of the countries' citizens and
military still remain uneducated about each other and what a
wartime bond could achieve.  Daryl Youngman, associate professor
at Hale Library at Kansas State University is an advocate for
counterinsurgency and developing bonds between U.S. and
Afghanistan soldiers and citizens. Counterinsurgency involves
the act of combating guerilla warfare and is more of a peace-
making effort. K-State libraries and the Army Directorate of
Cultural Influence and Counterinsurgency are partners in
developing social relationships across mili