Afghanistan Under the Taliban

• Published in: RUSI Journal Vol. 168; no. 6; pp. 76 - 83
• Main Author: Hellyer, H A
• Format: Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies 01.10.2023

In the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and much of Afghanistan in 2021, a deeply ideological movement had taken control of a massive territory–and was clearly there to stay. It is, of course, not the first time, in neither recent nor more ancient history, that a ‘revolutionary’ ideologi...