This could be just me -- but the Taliban appears to have shifted its messaging (and the way they are transmitting those messages) in recent weeks/months. I'd be curious to hear what @ThJohnsonNPS or others have to say about it...
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@washingtonpost photos are striking not just because@LorenzoTug is a phenomenal photog – but because they are showing their faces, staring straight at the lens. This is new. They are more comfortable, open, and confident in showing themselves off to foreign journalists3 vastausta 2 uudelleentwiittausta 16 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
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And they have a clearer message. This video kills me. A fighter casually remarks that their detention practices aligned with the Geneva Conventions. And that, of course, they support their leadership in peace talks. https://twitter.com/baryalkunduzai1/status/1208333353495216128?s=21 …
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That isn’t quite the story I’ve heard on the ground, but it’s the story they need their fighters to tell now. It is, of course, strategic. However much the roughness of their image allows people to underestimate them, they are incredibly good at strat comms.
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@mirkel and Matt Farwell's American Cipher. Even I’m stunned at how Taliban propaganda set the western media narrative on Berdahl’s captivity – even though evidence of his collaboration, etc. was completely and obviously manufactured3 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 5 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
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I can’t speak to the role of Taliban propaganda but the reason veterans turned on him was bc he walked off a FOB in an act of extremely narcissistic hubris which led to a predictable manhunt in which soldiers were killed or maimed for life.
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I'll read your book & I'm sure you known far more about the rest of the story. I wouldn't put it past the military to take advantage of the situation. But among vets the original sin of Bergdahl walking off--the gravity of which is patently obvious--is the source of our disdain.
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I’d be super curious to hear what you think of the book. His walk off was inexplicable — so much that it almost overwhelms everything else. But the most interesting part of the book was how the military and political est used the situation, and the aftermath of the swap.
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