Chatham House has published a report 'The Taliban at war: inside the Helmand insurgency, 2004–2012' by two Kings College War Studies academics, both with "time served" in Afghanistan, mainly in Helmand. Unusually it is freely available as a twenty-eight page PDF:http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/de...lGiustozzi.pdf
There's also a podcast with Theo Farrell:http://www.chathamhouse.org/audio-resource/193055
Meantime two passages to whet the appetite:Citations from:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...tan?CMP=twt_guFar from helping to secure Helmand, the arrival of the British triggered a violent intensification of the insurgency.....
.....What we find is an insurgency that is driven both by a strong unifying strategic narrative and purpose – jihad against foreign invaders – and by local conflict dynamics: rivalry between kinship groups and competition over land, water and drugs.
Yes, there is a long running thread 'The UK in Afghanistan' from March 2006, with a thousand posts and 103k views - which is one of the highest on SWC. One day this thread will be merged into that thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=7644
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