Tag: afghanistan

• Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel

  May 26, 2020

  ZARANJ, Afghanistan — Shortly after sunrise, an Afghan special operations helicopter descended on two vehicles racing through the empty deserts of southern Afghanistan, traversing what has become a superhighway for… more ›

• How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage

  May 26, 2020

  The Taliban stand on the brink of realizing their most fervent desire: U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan. They have given up little of their extremist ideology to do it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html more ›

• ‘It’s something we use for fun’: A new street drug in Afghanistan

  July 23, 2019

  Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. It is usually quiet, cut off from the bustle of the commercial and cultural hub. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/fun-street-drug-afghanistan-190721101125139.html more ›

• Taliban fighters double as reporters to wage Afghan digital war

  May 20, 2019

  KABUL (Reuters) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman and editor-in-chief of the insurgent group’s daily news bulletin, starts every day by collecting reports of overnight fighting with U.S. and… more ›

• Why Blackwater cannot be the future of U.S. warfare

  April 3, 2019

  Sean McFate Dr. Sean McFate is an adviser to Oxford University’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, as well as a professor of strategy at the National Defense University and… more ›

• South China sea – global supply chains

  November 23, 2018

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• The kill chain: inside the unit that tracks…

  January 23, 2018

  The kill chain: inside the unit that tracks targets for US drone wars » Amid Kansas bean fields military analysts watch live video of far-off suspects’ lives … and mark… more ›