08-14-2021, 05:24 PM
** 14-Aug-2021 World View: Taliban encircling Afghan capital Kabul, prepping final assault through east
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/...h-east.php
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The Taliban’s seemingly unstoppable offensive, which has seen the
group take control of more than half of Afghanistan’s provinces in
only nine days, is circling around the country’s capital and largest
city in Kabul. Today the Taliban took control of the provinces of
Paktika, Paktia, Laghman, Maimana and Kunar as well as Mazar-i-Sharif,
Afghanistan’s second largest city, and is consolidating its control of
the east in preparation for its culminating assault on Kabul. ...
The Afghan military is in complete disarray, and has been defeated in
detail across the country. ...
The Taliban’s strategy has given the Afghan government nowhere to run.
After consolidating its control of more than 170 of Afghanistan’s
contested districts, the Taliban swiftly moved to take the strategic
north and deny the country’s power brokers their base of support.
Concurrently, the Taliban seized the west and south, both which are
firmly under Taliban control. With these three key regions secured,
the Taliban has worked its way up from the south to quickly gobble up
the eastern provinces, with the final objective being the assault of
Kabul. -- Long War Journal
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/...h-east.php
- Taliban knocking on the door, 14-Aug-2021 (Long War Journal)
The Taliban’s seemingly unstoppable offensive, which has seen the
group take control of more than half of Afghanistan’s provinces in
only nine days, is circling around the country’s capital and largest
city in Kabul. Today the Taliban took control of the provinces of
Paktika, Paktia, Laghman, Maimana and Kunar as well as Mazar-i-Sharif,
Afghanistan’s second largest city, and is consolidating its control of
the east in preparation for its culminating assault on Kabul. ...
The Afghan military is in complete disarray, and has been defeated in
detail across the country. ...
The Taliban’s strategy has given the Afghan government nowhere to run.
After consolidating its control of more than 170 of Afghanistan’s
contested districts, the Taliban swiftly moved to take the strategic
north and deny the country’s power brokers their base of support.
Concurrently, the Taliban seized the west and south, both which are
firmly under Taliban control. With these three key regions secured,
the Taliban has worked its way up from the south to quickly gobble up
the eastern provinces, with the final objective being the assault of
Kabul. -- Long War Journal
