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Outmaneuvering the Taliban
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Expeditionary Eagles shows how to be the first successful occupier of Afghanistan since Tamerlane. As this war is now more about drugs than insurgency, the book sheds some much needed light on the symbiotic relationship between al-Qaeda, the drug cartels, and elements of the Pakistani government. It also contains a very lethal way to defend an isolated outpost - without artillery and airstrikes. There's a reason Spetsnaz could not shut down the mujahideen's resupply/reinforcement conduits during the Soviet-Afghan War. It was because people and ordnance were being smuggled i - by tiny increments and pieces - along the same highways that brought the drug consignments out piecemeal. This nearly invisible procedure may still be occurring.

"John Poole has produced another superb work that offers insightful and well-researched guidance on ...confronting the Taliban. Expeditionary Eagles: Outmaneuvering the Taliban should be required reading for our military and policy makers."
- Gen. Anthony C. Zinni USMC (Ret.), former head of CENTCOM

"Expeditionary Eagles offers an interesting strategic analysis of the war in Afghanistan plus, as always in John Poole's books, innovative small-unit tactics and techniques."
- William S. Lind, father of 4th-Generation Warfare Theory