The War Against the Taliban: Tactical Operations and Strategic Moves

Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
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Lucía Martínez Ordóñez: Ruhr University Bochum

Chapter Chapter 8 in Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves, 2017, pp 81-90 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Afghanistan war exhibits two special features. First, it is exemplified not only as the most recent example of “Irregular Warfare”, or IW, but as the prime example for the kind of armed conflict the West has to expect in the twenty-first century. Whichever definition of IW one looks at, its paramount characteristic is a (strong) asymmetry of the opponents’ objective functions. In order to achieve overall, i.e. politically sustainable, victory, it no longer suffices to defeat the enemy army but other aspects such as culture, religion or the problem of dealing with less perfect Third World-style “democracies” in general have to be taken into account.

Keywords: Nash Equilibrium; Mixed Strategy; Pure Strategy; Strategic Move; Irregular Warfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56108-0_8

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