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challenges

challenges. DOCO – can be found on YouTube – ‘Behind Taliban Lines’ (Had to remove in order to fit file size on wikispaces ). The Taliban. What did the doco show us about the Taliban? Why aren’t the US ‘winning’?. Some Reasons. Asymmetrical Warfare ‘Hearts and Minds’

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  1. challenges

  2. DOCO – can be found on YouTube – ‘Behind Taliban Lines’ • (Had to remove in order to fit file size on wikispaces)

  3. The Taliban • What did the doco show us about the Taliban? • Why aren’t the US ‘winning’?

  4. Some Reasons • Asymmetrical Warfare • ‘Hearts and Minds’ • Lack of support from Afghan public • ‘Clash of Civilisations’ • What is their objective? • “They won the war but lost the peace” (Steve P Vincent) • Not good occupy-ers • Shifted focus from Afghanistan to Iraq.

  5. ‘Just War’ • What is a ‘Just War’? Page 263 of textbook. • Does the War in Afghanistan fit with this notion? • What could have been done to make the invasion of Afghanistan a ‘Just War’?

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