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...hills. Victory still requires one group of men to find and kill another. Technology can't do it all. "The cruise missiles and bombers are not going to solve this problem," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week. In an assessment of the Soviet Union's defeat in Afghanistan written for the U.S. Army in 1996, a retired Afghan general and his American co-author were blunt. "A guerrilla war," they wrote, "is not a war of technology against peasantry. Rather, it is a contest of endurance and national will. The side with the greatest moral commitment will hold...
...This 15-lb., shoulder-mounted Bunker Defeat Munition has a range of 15 to 500 yds. and can be fired by ground forces on their final approach...
...against Queens further boosted Harvard’s confidence before its match against host Brown. While the Crimson expected to defeat the Bears, it knew it had to play well...
...President Bush is reportedly stressing that the U.S. can't afford to withdraw its attention from Afghanistan following its defeat for fear that if the country is plunged back into civil war it will remain a breeding ground of terrorism. But stabilizing a post-Taliban regime in Kabul may prove to be as perilous, if not more so, than the effort to overthrow the fundamentalist militia. The reason is simply that the enmities that have torn apart Afghanistan run far deeper than the excesses of the Taliban, and the West has little to work with by way of established alternative...
...forget. Even if a "moderate" Taliban breakaway is achieved, it is to be expected that a significant proportion of that movement may fight on against any new government. The Northern Alliance, for its part, remains united by their hatred of the Taliban rather than by any shared vision, and defeat of the common enemy may reopen old wounds among its various tribal factions. Moreover, while many Alliance leaders are inclined to accept the principle of a unity government formed around King Zahir, the Alliance is still nominally loyal to Barhanuddin Rabbani, the president overthrown by the Taliban...