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...potentially messy war. The Taliban was proving more tenacious than expected, U.S. commanders said. And what they didn't say was that the Northern Alliance's capabilities may have been overestimated. U.S. and Pakistan-backed efforts to organize a "southern alliance" to fight the Taliban in its own Pashtun heartland in the south have not yet yielded much fruit, and suffered a setback Friday with the reported execution of a key anti-Taliban moderate mujahedeen commander...
...Taliban heartland: Hedging its bets The U.S. game plan until now has involved a combination of air strikes and commando raids and an offensive by the Northern Alliance to provoke an internal collapse of the Taliban regime. It had been hoped that seeing the writing on the wall, many Pashtun militias around the country that may once have sided with the Taliban would switch sides. While there are continual reports of Taliban allies sounding out the possibility of switching sides, the Taliban does not appear to be anywhere near collapse. Delegates assembled by Pakistan for an anti-Taliban confab this...
...Taliban and an advance on Kabul would certainly strike psychological blows that could potentially peel away Taliban supporters. But the Northern Alliance has so far made heavy weather of the drive to recapture its former northern stronghold at Mazari al-Sharif, where the Taliban are furthest from their heartland in the south. And right now the Taliban forces defending the approaches to Kabul are believed to be significantly larger than the Alliance forces on the Bagram front...
...ultimate war game for armchair strategists. A dozen experts gathered at Andrews Air Force Base for two days in June for a germ-warfare assault on America's heartland. The exercise was called Dark Winter. The scenario: Oklahoma, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been deliberately targeted with smallpox virus. The mission: to marshal the full resources of the Federal Government and limit the damage. But even though the players included seasoned leaders--former Senator Sam Nunn acting as the President, former presidential adviser David Gergen as National Security Adviser, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating playing himself--the situation got quickly...
...ultimate war game for armchair strategists. A dozen experts gathered at Andrews Air Force Base for two days in June for a germ-warfare assault on America's heartland. The exercise was called Dark Winter. The scenario: Oklahoma, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been deliberately targeted with smallpox virus. The mission: to marshal the full resources of the Federal Government and limit the damage. But even though the players included seasoned leaders--former Senator Sam Nunn acting as the President, former presidential adviser David Gergen as National Security Adviser, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating playing himself--the situation got quickly...