Taliban Struggles With Flattening
As demonstrated in both the text of the new codex as well as the interview with Mullah Sabir, the Afghani war is internally decentralizing. The codex devotes several of its 26 points to reinforcing the power of the district commander.
But in terms of organizational structure the Taliban looks to be coming across some growing pains associated with gradual flattening:
The focus [of the meeting] was on military strategy and internal behavioral questions.
A notably large number of rules are concerned with disciplinary matters within the Taliban organisation as the group’s swift expansion of power has apparently resulted in a certain coarsening of behaviour.
And the Taliban looks to be struggling with this development to some degree, as demonstrated by the “police state” type behavior taking place to maintain cohesiveness:
The Taliban military chief Mullah Dadullah has proven himself especially bloodthirsty; he has been known to behead prisoners with his own hand and, like Zarqawi, the recently killed al-Qaida leader in Iraq, has had executions filmed and then broadcast on the Internet.
But, as demonstrated by its attitude towards district leaders as opposed to centralized leaders, the Taliban is on course to eventually fragment on governmental platform – one decentralized by necessity and funded by black globalization.
-Shlok
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