Policy initiatives in the Trump administration and Biden-Harris significantly accelerated Taliban’s victory Afghanistan. This article supports conclusion that major factors this defeat were historical difficulty governing Afghanistan, Afghan republic’s two inefficient corrupt governments, an ineffective US strategy, operational shortcomings by forces, military, Pakistan’s duplicitous policy, st...

News from online media portals has advantages over traditional in establishing credibility and influencing its readers. This study aims to investigate the structure of Arabic discourse header: أفغانستان تحت حكم طالبان: الأمم المتحدة تجمع مليار دولار للمساعدات الإنسانية on news portal www.bbc.arabic.com. employs a descriptive qualitative method conjunction with Teun A. van Dijk's critical analys...

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hamas and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of government provision. The sacrifices these groups demand are economically efficient (as in Iannaccone (1...

Stephanie Yeagle | Aug. 1, 2017 NCR Today Congregations receive $25 million to cover retirement shortfalls[1] African-born clergy, religious ministering in U.S. gather in New Orleans[2] Scientists, theologians ponder if latest biological findings are more compatible with religion[3] Column: In world awash with weapons, there's a better way[4] Ex-priest leaves prison after serving his sentence [...

To the Editor: In 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was formed, with the aim of reducing infection with poliomyelitis virus. Two decades later in 2008, a total of 1,625 children contracted acute flaccid paralysis caused by poliovirus infection (1). This finding represented a 150% increase over the number of cases in 2007 (1) and resulted in the reemergence of polio as one of the wor...

The following essay captures the relevance of these three works to the prolonged irregular war against the Taliban and al Qaeda. Based on the arguments so aptly put forth in these studies, this essay posits that irregular warfare in the twenty-first century requires intuitive and creative leaders who can masterfully weave information operations, combined general-purpose operations, and special ...