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...Reported by Hannah Beech/Khoja Bahauddin, Anthony Davis/Jabal-us-Seraj, Michael Fathers/Islamabad, Terry McCarthy/ Dasht-i-Qaleh, Alex Perry/Termez and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/ Washington
...conceal tightly bound units with a fighting philosophy that places greater importance on energy conservation and brutal surprise than on sheer military muscle. "We must make sure that we pick the right time to fight," says Mohammed Kabeer Marzban, a warlord who controls the northern town of Khoja Bahauddin. "Otherwise we will have wasted our soldiers in vain." As the conflict wears on, learning the strange art of Afghan warfare will be critical to American success...
...showy impatience, much of the Alliance doesn't look war-ready. Near Khoja Bahauddin, on the Taliqan front, the Alliance must move its tanks across a steep-banked river before it can even think of mounting an offensive. That's not to say an Alliance breakthrough is impossible, especially if American strikes against the Taliban pick up. But even the most confident Alliance soldiers say it won't happen soon. "War is in our blood," says Safaullah, a fighter in Dasht-i-Qala. "We'll fight for centuries if we have...
After three weeks, Americans wonder when the war will end. But to the Afghans, fighting is a 23-year routine. In Khoja Bahauddin, far from U.S. air strikes, Northern Alliance soldiers fire on the Taliban lines from cliffs and trenches. They fight as they have always fought. Their children use gutted tanks as fortresses, playing as they have always played...
...showy impatience, much of the Alliance doesn't look war-ready. Near Khoja Bahauddin, on the Taliqan front, the Alliance must move its tanks across a steep-banked river before it can even think of mounting an offensive. That's not to say an Alliance breakthrough is impossible, especially if American strikes against the Taliban pick up. But even the most confident Alliance soldiers say it won't happen soon. "War is in our blood," says Safaullah, a fighter in Dasht-i-Qala. "We'll fight for centuries if we have...