Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Understand the Culture and the Strategy Writes Itself (IV)

Ever wonder how to win the heart and mind of your average Taliban fighter in Kandahar, this should help. Reporters from America's Hat (Canada) set forth on a project asking Taliban fighters a set of standardized questions.

This series of videos should highlight the near-impossible task of non-Muslim foreign occupiers attempting a population-centric COIN campaign as a third party working through a "democratically elected" government the U.S. just tried to kick out of bed.

Oh, and the White House still does not have a strategy for Afghanistan.


globeandmail.com: Talking to the Taliban