Naval Postgraduate School
The Taliban : An Organizational Analysis
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One of the most widely recognized images of the
present day is that of airplanes hitting the world trade center on
11 september 2001. the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and its host, the
taliban in afghanistan, became household names all over the world on that
fateful day. the media started churning out stories about the brutalities of
the taliban, and the world discovered a new monster.
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of either the U.S. Army or
the Pakistan Army
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