Beating Back the Taliban
03.23.2011 at 10:51am
Beating Back the Taliban by Dr. Seth Jones, Foreign Policy / RAND. BLUF: “Despite all the political hand-wringing in Washington over the war in Afghanistan, it’s the Taliban who are now on the defensive on the military battlefield. Indeed, there is a growing recognition among senior Taliban leaders that they are losing momentum in parts of southern Afghanistan, their longtime stronghold. This is more than the normal winter lull of senior Taliban fighters migrating to Pakistan: The Taliban have definitively lost territorial control in parts of Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, and other southern provinces.”
