The Quetta Shura Taliban in southern Afghanistan : organization, operations, and shadow governance / Jeffrey Dressler, Carl Forsberg.
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TextSeries: ; (Backgrounder | ; Institute for the Study of War)Publication details: Washington, DC : Institute for the Study of War, 2009.Description: 11 p. : ill. ; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - Pamphlet DS 371.412 .D74 2008/ + /PDF /(1.48MB)
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Caption title.
“Institute for the study of war”—at head of title.
“December 21, 2009”.
Includes bibliographical references—(p. 10-11).
“Portions of this paper have been compiled from Securing Helmand: Understanding and Responding to the Enemy and The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar”—(p. 1).
Summary: “The Quetta Shura Taliban is sophisticated, resourceful, and fully-entrenched in many of Afghanistan's southern, western, and northern provinces. Perhaps the most glaring failure of the eight-year long war effort has been underestimating the enemy in Afghanistan. The QST has demonstrated their ability to adapt, institute lessons learned, and best practices. Indeed, QST are an entirely different enemy in both form and function than they were just years ago. With designs on seizing all of Afghanistan, mirrored in historical events, it is all the more necessary to seize the initiative from this formidable foe”—(p. 9).