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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://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-we-lost-the-war-we-won-rolling-stones-2008-journey-into-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-20110131 a story from 2008, when one [arab] journalist ventured into Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and wrote a piece about his hosts and overall situation in Afghanistan.

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

http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/102234.html What happens in a war (from the veteran of 1st and 2nd Chenen wars ) , also see Arkady’s book “One soldier’s War” http://www.amazon.com/One-Soldiers-War-Arkady-Babchenko/dp/0802118607

http://www.hpbt.org/articles/contrsniper.htm Military tactics and strategy

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/unmanned-aircraft-1109 An article in Esquire about how UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) missions look up close.