http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/868809.html#cutid1 Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.
http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/868809.html#cutid1 Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/atwar/winninginafghanistan1.pdf WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN, by CPT Carl Thompson 9 April 2009 /from the must-read sources for american personnel [about to be] deployed in Afghanistan / Exceptionally good article about strategy and leadership. It contains a lot of specifies that are only relevant to military and Afghanistan , but there are enough general points as well. Excellent writing, despite a need to decipher some military lingvo
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/the-weakness-of-taliban-marksmanship/ An interesting article about small arms skills and marksmanship of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The articles suggests that those skills are low, and offers plausible explanation, but it nevertheless works OK for Taliban
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/24/tanks_but_no_tanks?page=full Article about current armored vehicle usage policy in Afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/26/taliban-afghanistan-occupation also see: Part I: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/24/the-taliban-troop-london-jihadists and Part II : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/25/taliban-afghanistan-prison-special-report
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MA20Df02.html article about political situation in Northern Afghanistan, information about Taliban, fragments from an interview with a taliban commander