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Qazi, Shehzad H. "The ‘Neo-Taliban’ and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan." Third World Quarterly 31, no. 3 (2010): 485–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2010.488484.

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Wani, Zahoor Ahmad. "Afghanistan’s Neo-Taliban Puzzle." South Asia Research 41, no. 2 (2021): 220–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02627280211000165.

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This article examines the emergence of the neo-Taliban and its encroachment in non-Pashtun regions after the debacle of the old Taliban following the post 9/11 US-led NATO intervention in Afghanistan. It seeks to understand what aspirations drive the neo-Taliban and how they have reframed their ideology after 2001, leading to growing acceptance of a future role for the neo-Taliban in Afghanistan, while foreign-led counterinsurgency seems to fail. The article argues that due to the extremely fractious nature and continuing precariousness of the Afghan political climate, the neo-Taliban could emerge as a formidable power, with an agenda of bringing peace and stability to the entire ‘Af-Pak’ region. However, to what extent the neo-Taliban may be successful in countering widely held perceptions that it is a Pashtun nationalist movement, antagonistic to women, dissent and minorities, remains part of the challenging puzzle, as much for analysts as for the movement itself, which is not trusted in terms of delivering good governance in Afghanistan.
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Swenson, Geoffrey. "Why U.S. Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed." International Security 42, no. 1 (2017): 114–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00285.

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Promoting the rule of law in Afghanistan has been a major U.S. foreign policy objective since the collapse of the Taliban regime in late 2001. Policymakers invested heavily in building a modern democratic state bound by the rule of law as a means to consolidate a liberal post-conflict order. Eventually, justice-sector support also became a cornerstone of counterinsurgency efforts against the reconstituted Taliban. Yet a systematic analysis of the major U.S.-backed initiatives from 2004 to 2014 finds that assistance was consistently based on dubious assumptions and questionable strategic choices. These programs failed to advance the rule of law even as spending increased dramatically during President Barack Obama's administration. Aid helped enable rent seeking and a culture of impunity among Afghan state officials. Despite widespread claims to the contrary, rule-of-law initiatives did not bolster counterinsurgency efforts. The U.S. experience in Afghanistan highlights that effective rule-of-law aid cannot be merely technocratic. To have a reasonable prospect of success, rule-of-law promotion efforts must engage with the local foundations of legitimate legal order, which are often rooted in nonstate authority, and enjoy the support of credible domestic partners, including high-level state officials.
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Bivainis, Andrius. "Contemporary Afghanistan Outlook: Between Counterinsurgency and Search of the Social Contract." International Journal of Area Studies 10, no. 2 (2015): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijas-2015-0006.

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Abstract This article is based on reassessment of the contemporary results of counterinsurgency and nation-building in Afghanistan. Nation-building initiatives have been started in the country since the Bonn agreement in December 2001. This agreement brought into reality the current governing system of Afghanistan. Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan has been initiated in full mode since 2009 after a sound success on Iraqi frontier. However, each operational area is bringing its own specifics into play. The same was with Afghanistan. The newly established constitutional presidential republic has faced with inheritance of unresolved sensitive ethnical identity issues, confrontation between different groups for self-governing authority and security of essential resources. These preconditions have brought a diversified and even confrontational social environment into reality. Prolonged military operations in Afghanistan could show that diversified social environment and misevaluated cultural heritage has led to misleading assumptions that centralized presidential governing system could become an effective ruling model for post-Taliban country. One of the key notions of this article is that historical lessons taught by long years of colonialist rule in Afghanistan has not been learned and misevaluation of diversified and confrontational local entities has brought another historical lesson of Afghan tribal resistance. More than that, diversified and confrontational entities of Afghanistan have not been a favorable subject for possible social contract. The term social contract was introduced as explanatory method of national political behavior and systemic structure by Jean Jacques Rousseau in 18th century Europe. Afghan society has become the subject to this model of political philosophy only as counterinsurgency campaign gained full capabilities around 2009. Reassessment of long term nation building efforts in this article is based on evaluation of Afghan social contract’s progress.
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Yasa, Abdul Rahman. "From Security Sector Reform to Endemic Corruption: The Case of Afghanistan." Journal of Strategic Security 13, no. 3 (2020): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.13.3.1755.

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Corruption and insecurity are reinforcing each other. It can hinder the democratic processes and jeopardize the security sector through creating corrupt administrative systems, manipulation of contracts and procurement. After the decomposition of the Taliban in 2001, the U.S.-led coalition carried out Security Sector Reform (SSR) to (re) construct the Afghan National Police (ANP) and Afghan National Army (ANA) together known as Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). Over critical literature, there are serious critiques concerning the U.S. and its allies’ scrimmage for their role in conducting the SSR in Afghanistan. The research argues that the lack of a long-term strategic vision for conducting SSR as part of the state-building process by the international community was a critical challenge. This crux has further been exacerbated by the privatization of SSR and the contrast between the U.S. and its European allies on the role of the police. This dichotomy affected the anti-corruption and law enforcement potentials of police, which resulted in the present crisis. Additionally, this research figures out that insufficient oversight of contracts and procurement, training and advising processes of the ANDSF gave more room for misappropriation, theft, and fraud by both the local and international contractors. Finally, all these shortfalls together with constant turnover have undermined the counterinsurgency efforts of Afghan forces on the ground. Therefore, endless military operation without any tangible results has wearied the people, and further added fodder to the terrorist propaganda machine.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Taliban. Counterinsurgency. Afghanistan"

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Afsar, Shahid A. Samples Christopher A. "The evolution of the Taliban." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA483587.

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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Johnson, Thomas H. "June 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on August 26, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-178). Also available in print.
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Haskell, David J. "The Afghan National Police turning a counterinsurgency problem into a solution." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/AR/topic/misc/09Dec_Haskell_appendix_II.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Simons, Anna. Second Reader: Johnson, Thomas H. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Afghan National Police (ANP), Counterinsurgency (COIN), Culture, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA), Taliban. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-88). Also available in print.
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Karlsson, Julia. "Counterinsurgency in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands : A Discourse Analysis of the American Assessment of the Border to Pakistan in the Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Mission." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-320748.

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The main theatre of the war in Afghanistan is in its borderlands to Pakistan. There the Taliban strongholds never ceased and its local population seem to affiliate with the enemy. December 1 2009 President Barack Obama presented a new “comprehensive” strategy concerning the mission in Afghanistan. This was a strategy highly dominated by counterinsurgency – or in other words to change the main focus from the enemy to the population. The study’s aim was to analyse the assessment of the borderlands in the new Afghanistan counterinsurgency mission. This was done with the tools of critical discourse analysis and also in identifying ideal types in the counterinsurgency theory. The goal was to understand how the borderlands were assessed in the mission and if the concepts of regional aspects, external support, winning hearts and minds and securing the population were addressed.  The results show that the borderlands were assessed well in accordance to counterinsurgency theory, but the specific cultural aspects of Afghanistan were given little attention. The situation in the borderlands is still to this day very unstable.
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Asplund, Thidlund Peter. "The good and the bad: UCAV counterinsurgency : how are the UCAV theories reflected in the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6199.

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The modern battlefield is a changing environment where new ideas and technology are being tried and implemented. One such technology that has brought recent changes to the battlefield is the Unmanned Aerial Combat Vehicles (UCAV), commonly (and often incorrectly) referred to as “drones”. UCAV can be considered the new weapon of choice to deal with irregular opponents or terrorist organisations, such as those in Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, the use of UCAV is not without contradictory elements and leads to debate. It is within this debate that this study takes foothold. This study will be analysing the debate and issues surrounding this by evaluating four contrasting variables, measuring impact through different means and aiming to increase the understanding of UACV in the field. There are several crossovers in the analysis of all four variables citing the strengths and weaknesses of UCAV provisions in conflict. The analysis, however, conclude that a sole, holistic use of UCAV strikes would not resort in a termination of threats, such as the Taliban or Al-Qaida. This means that both the positive and the negative aspects of UCAV are seen in the conflict and do not contradict one another. Regretfully, this implicates that even if the Taliban and Al-Qaida becomes less effective due to the UCAV strikes, they will not perish.
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McCullough, Benjamin P. "Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: A Last Ditch Effort to Turn Around a Failing War." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1406041482.

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Mann, Zahid Nawaz. "The nature of insurgency in Afghanistan and the regional power politics." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Jun/10Jun%5FMann.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Simons, Anna ; Second Reader: Khan, Feroz H. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Pashtun Nationalism, Pashtunwali, Durand Line, Afghan Jihad, Afghan Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, FATA, South Asian Conflicts, Indian Cold-Start Strategy, Kashmir Dispute, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, U.S. AFPAK Strategy, U.S. Troop Surge, Reconciliation with Taliban, Operation Enduring Freedom, U.S.-Pakistan Relations, Nuclear Weapons of Pakistan, Counterinsurgency Strategy of Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Operation Rah-e-Raast, Operation Rah-e-Nejat, Drone Attacks, Central Asian Republics (CARs), Oil and Gas, The New Great Game, Interests of Iran, India, China and Russia in Afghanistan, Gwadar Port. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-115). Also available in print.
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Cedergren, Martin. "Koalitionens fall i Afghanistan? : Flygbombningars inverkan på befolkningsstödet till talibanerna." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-754.

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<p>Kriget i Afghanistan som startade 2001 har bidragit till att många civila skadats och fått sätta livet till. En av anledningarna till detta är det ökade användandet av flygstridskrafter för att skydda egen marktrupp. Flygattacker är på många sätt en bra metod för att snabbt kunna bekämpa fientliga individer samt med stor eldkraft kunna verka över stora ytor. Baksidan av att använda flygbombningar är att det i flera fall drabbar dem som inte är det utpekade målet. Kan detta vara en bidragande faktor till ett ökat missnöje mot koalitionen i Afghanistan och en direkt ökning för stödet till rebellerna? Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan koalitionens flygbombningar i Afghanistan och ett ökat stöd till talibanerna från civilbefolkningen. Den hypotes som jag utgår ifrån i mitt arbete är att flygbombningar som leder till civila förluster ökar stödet tilltalibanerna i Afghanistan. För att få ett svar på min hypotes använder jag mig av statistik över antalet civila dödsfall i flygattacker mellan åren 2006-2008. Statistiken kopplas ihop med statistik över det ökade antalet rebellattacker under samma period för att se om det finns en korrelation mellan dem. Därefter presenteras ett urval av intervjuer med människor som drabbats av flygbombningar gjorda av olika nyhetsbolag samt uttalanden från utomstående personer för att styrka indikationerna från statistiken om att fler civila dödsoffer leder till ökat stöd för talibanerna. Resultatet av undersökningen verifierar min hypotes. En slutsats av undersökningen är att koalitionens användningav flygbombningar måste ändras för att minska de civila dödsoffren och på så sätt inte vända befolkningen emot dem.</p><br><p>The war in Afghanistan that started in 2001 has contributed to numerous civilians that have been injured and killed. One reason for this is the increased use of air power to protect ground troops. Airstrikes can be a good way to quickly strike against individuals and to operate across vast areas with great firepower. But the drawback of aerial bombing is that it in many cases affects those who are not the designated target. Could this be a contributing factor to increased dissatisfaction with the Coalition forces in Afghanistan and a direct increase in support to the rebels? The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a connection between the coalition air campaign in Afghanistan and the increased support for the Taliban from civilians. The hypothesis which I test in my work is that air campaign, leading to civilian casualties increases support for the Taliban in Afghanistan. To get an answer to my hypothesis, I use statistics on the number of civilian deaths in air strikes between the years 2006 to 2008. As well as on the increasing number of insurgent attacks during the same period to see if there is a correlation between them. I also present support from secondary sources, including interviews with people affected by air bombardments and expert comments that indicate that the number of civilian casualties results in increased support for the rebels. The results validate my hypothesis. One conclusion of the study is that the coalition's use of the air campaigns must be modified to reduce the civilian deaths in order not to turn the population against them.</p>
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Lafaye, Christophe. "Le génie en Afghanistan : adaptation d'une arme en situation de contre-insurrection (2001-2012) : hommes, matériels, emploi." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM1041.

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Cette recherche doctorale en histoire immédiate, s'inscrit dans une réflexion plus large sur l'étude de nouveaux conflits, la culture et l'emploi des forces armées françaises sur le terrain, en prenant l'exemple de son engagement en Afghanistan. Elle porte particulièrement sur l'emploi de l'arme du génie dont nous postulons à la grande importance de ses savoir-faire sur le terrain, en situation de contre-insurrection<br>This doctoral research takes part on the study of the new conflicts, by taking the example of the French engineers in Afghanistan. We postulate for the big importance of these combat support units in situation of counterinsurgency
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Gunnarsson, Mattias. "Avvägningar inom modern upprorsbekämpning : En teoriprövande studier om kritiska avvägningar i upprorsbekämpning." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10224.

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For almost two decades Sweden has been a part of NATO: s missions in Afghanistan to create security and ensure that the country will not become a safe haven for terrorist organisations. The discussion how to counter terrorism and insurgency in the 21st century is today a topic where the foundation of modern counterinsurgency is questioned. Critiques against counterinsurgency strategy states that counterinsurgency does not work but merely is a utopia. This essay has studied two periods of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan by testing Zambernardis theory of counterinsurgency trilemma, with the purpose to contribute with new information of conditions within counterinsurgency to the discussion. The theory aims to show that of the three main goals of all counterinsurgency’s; force protection, distinction between enemy combatants and non-combatants and the physical elimination of insurgents, only two can be achieved simultaneously. The study compared the two cases differences regarding casualties to reach the conclusions.The result of the study shows that ISAF achieved two goals simultaneously during the two periods in line with Zambernardis theory. The result of the study shows that when discussing counterinsurgency operations, the relationship between casualties in counterinsurgency’s ought to be included.
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Books on the topic "Taliban. Counterinsurgency. Afghanistan"

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Hassina, Sherjan, ed. Toughing it out in Afghanistan. Brookings Institution Press, 2010.

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Jones, Seth G. In the graveyard of empires: America's war in Afghanistan. W.W. Norton, 2010.

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Tupper, Benjamin. Greetings from Afghanistan, send more ammo: Dispatches from Taliban country. NAL Caliber, 2010.

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Greetings from Afghanistan, send more ammo: Dispatches from Taliban country. NAL Caliber, 2010.

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In the graveyard of empires: America's war in Afghanistan. W.W. Norton, 2009.

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Developments in Afghanistan: Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, hearing held June 16, 2010. U.S. G.P.O., 2010.

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Strategic options for the way ahead in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, February 26, 2009. U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic options for the way ahead in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, February 26, 2009. U.S. G.P.O., 2009.

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The outpost: An untold story of American valor. Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

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The way ahead in Afghanistan: Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held July 27, 2011. U.S. G.P.O., 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Taliban. Counterinsurgency. Afghanistan"

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Giustozzi, Antonio, and Barnett R. Rubin. "More War, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency." In Afghanistan. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190496630.003.0009.

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How did the insurgency against the Afghan government and international presence in Afghanistan start? The Taliban were utterly defeated in 2001 and dispersed among remote villages in Afghanistan and Pakistan; some even sought refuge in Iran. Attempts to negotiate deals with some of the...
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Malkasian, Carter. "The Surge in Helmand." In The American War in Afghanistan. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197550779.003.0012.

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Chapter 12, “The Surge in Helmand,” depicts the battles of the US Marines, Afghan leaders, and the British army in Helmand against the Taliban, focusing on the implementation of counterinsurgency, the battle for Marjah, poppy, and mobilization of Afghan tribes.
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