Knowledge Is Power: Adaptations Required To Survive In the Human Domain

The International Security Assistance Force, of which the U.S. Army provides the largest compo- nent, possesses absolute dominance over the Taliban- quantitatively and qualitatively-in the land, air, maritime, space and cyber domains. [...]the question must be asked: How is it that a ragtag, largely illiterate guerrilla force, equipped primarily with AK-47 assault rifles, RPG-7 rocket launchers, unsecure handheld radios and flip-flops, can drive the best-trained, best-equipped, best-educated, most technologically advanced and most networked mili- tary in the history of warfare to its longest war, one that will most likely conclude-in the most optimistic of analyses- as a stalemate?