The Taliban at war: inside the Helmand insurgency, 2004-2012
The Taliban at war: inside the Helmand insurgency, 2004-2012
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战争中的塔利班：赫尔曼德叛乱内部，2004-2012
DOI：
10.1111/1468-2346.12048
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
FARRELL T
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FARRELL T
在试图解释阿富汗战争为何以及如何拖延时，大多数分析都集中在西方和阿富汗政府的努力上。在这篇文章中，我们将从叛乱的角度来审视这场战争。使用赫尔曼德省作为一个案例研究，我们借鉴了大量的原始采访塔利班战地指挥官和战士，以产生一个独特的详细的塔利班在战争中的图片。在第一部分中，我们探讨了塔利班如何在2004年至2006年返回赫尔曼德省，并展示了英国如何在2006年向赫尔曼德省部署部队时使局势变得更糟。在文章的第二部分，我们研究了自2006年以来赫尔曼德省塔利班叛乱的演变。我们展示了塔利班如何发展出一个日益集中的组织结构，一个更加军事化的影子政府和更专业的实地单位。出现的总体情况是，叛乱活动在巨大的军事压力下适应了变化。塔利班在赫尔曼德省遭受了非常沉重的消耗，但他们远未被击败。
In seeking to explain why and how the war in Afghanistan has dragged on, most analysis has focused on the western and Afghan government effort. In this article, we examine how the war looks from the perspective of the insurgency. Using Helmand province as a case-study, we draw on a large number of original interviews with Taliban field commanders and fighters to produce a uniquely detailed picture of the Taliban at war. In the first section, we explore how the Taliban returned to Helmand from 2004 to 2006, and show how the British made the situation far worse when they deployed forces to Helmand in 2006. In the second part of the article we examine the evolution of the Taliban insurgency in Helmand since 2006. We show how the Taliban has developed an increasingly centralized organizational structure, a more militarized shadow government and greater professionalism of field units. The overall picture that emerges is of a resilient insurgency that has adapted under immense military pressure. The Taliban have suffered very heavy attrition in Helmand, but they are far from defeated.