Afghanistan

Afghanistan supply line 1988

General

How to Save Afghanistan , by Rory Stewart - Time

Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words? - ICG

The art of asymmetric warfare , by Jason Burke - Guardian

It Takes a School, Not Missiles , by Nicholas D. Kristof - NYT

The Dream Of Afghan Democracy Is Dead , by Anatol Lieven - FT via NAF

The Taliban’s Baghdad Strategy - Newsweek

Taliban conflict 'cannot be won' in Afghanistan - The Australian

Nangarhar Elders Demand Retribution for US Air Strike - IWPR

Pashtuns - academic papers

Badal: A Culture of Revenge. The Impact of Collateral Damage on Taliban Insurgency (pdf), by Raja G. Hussain - Naval Postgraduate School

Weapons of the not so Weak in Afghanistan: Pashtun Agrarian Structure and Tribal Organization for Times of War & Peace (pdf), by Thomas J. Barfield - Yale

Culture, heritage

Prophet's cloak can't shelter Kandahar from terror - Globe and Mail

Restoring Past Glory in Old Kabul - WP

Undaunted - First Rory Stewart walked the breadth of Afghanistan. Then he took up a real challenge: restoring traditional architecture in Kabul - Smithsonian

Should Buddhas Blasted by the Taliban Be Rebuilt? - Time

Rediscovering treasures of Bamiyan - BBC