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A shift in militants’ strategy could shine a more positive light on failed US policy

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James M. Dorsey
Sep 21, 2021
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By James M. Dorsey

A paradigm shift in jihadist thinking suggests that the US invasion of Afghanistan may prove to have achieved more than many counterterrorism experts would want policymakers and military strategists to believe.

Similarly, the paradigm shift also hints at the possibility that the presence in a Taliban-governed Afghanistan of various mili…

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