[QUOTE=itak365;44789336]I feel like we need more anthropologists in Afghanistan. Figuring out how the Taliban gets fighters and what exactly is pissing people off is really important right now, more than anything else. The weird thing is that before the wars there were extensive ethnographies done on the Pashtuns (The majority of the Taliban in both pakistan and Afghanistan) that detail how Pashtun political organization works, but I don't really know if the ISAF and the Afghan government is even taking those into account.[/QUOTE]
Of course the ISAF and Afghan government are aware of the Pashtuns and their organization. The United States has been doing this since the beginning. This is why there is a lot of outreach and integration in decision making to villages and village leaders while we've been operating in Afghanistan. We are already very aware of of the ethnic diversity and cultural differences between the different ethnic groups of Afghanistan (Pashtun, Uzbek, Tajik, etc.)
[QUOTE=Riller;44792098]If I remember correctly, the Talibobs aren't that big on the suicide bombs, they're more for massed RPG fire against buildings.[/QUOTE]
yup(may be years old, but they are still pretty damn good with all that supression):
[video=youtube;cU9BUVXq000]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU9BUVXq000[/video]
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[video=youtube;cU9BUVXq000]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU9BUVXq000[/video][/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/WV5LDIJ.png?1[/IMG]
Don't think their videos can be embedded.
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