Taliban wants anti-armor weapons

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According to this CTV report, the Taliban is looking for anti-armor weapons. But why?

Certainly, the Taliban guerrillas in question may be shopping around for anti-tank mines and rockets for all the wrong reasons. Insurgents aren't supermen, immune from error. For example, the ELAS guerrillas in Greece's civil war tried to use conventional methods at the operational level of strategy, and the Greek government thanked them for this chivalric gesture by cutting them to pieces. The current Taliban leadership, or some faction within the Taliban, may just be making the same mistake, looking for ways to fight battles that don't need to be fought.

Not too long ago, the Taliban defeated the mujahideen government (later, the Northern Alliance, and now the coalition behind the current government in Kabul) without a healthy arsenal of anti-armor weapons. The mujahideen had a healthy arsenal of tanks and armored personnel carriers, many appropriated from the former Najibullah government. While the Taliban wasn't exactly powerless against these weapons, Kabul didn't fall because of some Kursk-like clash of armor, or waves of anti-tank rockets fired against government vehicles.

You could make the argument that the mujahideen used their tanks and APCs poorly, while the NATO allies are not making the same mistakes. Mujahideen armored units often did act more like mobile artillery, driving from one fixed position to another, blasting any enemies they found at each point. NATO APCs are highly mobile and well-armored, and the tactical doctrine that guides their use is much better than what the Taliban faced in the past.

However, what happens at the technical and tactical levels of the current war in Afghanistan won't decide the conflict. The Taliban's essential strategy remains the same: maintain a military and political presence until the NATO allies withdraw and the Kabul government collapses (in whatever order those two events occur). Meanwhile, the Taliban has to avoid being shut out of whatever enclaves the Kabul government and its foreign patrons can establish, in an ever-widening swath of the Afghan countryside.

Anti-tank weapons may help the Taliban keep any potential enclave from being totally secure. They may also be an important political tool: destroying NATO vehicles--and killing a lot of enemy soldiers in the process--is good PR for the Taliban. If, as the CTV article suggests, the Taliban is planning on raiding NATO and Afghan National Army (ANA) bases, the goal is the same: demonstrate that nowhere, no one, is safe.

Comments

[Alex]

Hmm. I can certainly see why they would want more better RPGs now - shoulder-launched antitank weapons have been proven notably in Iraq to be the modern guerrilla's weapon of choice. Good for vehicles, good for helicopters, good for infantry as an airburst, the mujahedin even rigged them up as a sort of mini-katyusha for bombardment.

Operationally, their use in the short term will be, along with IEDs, to impose costs on allied road movement and force our heads down inside heavy armour, thus breaking contact with the population and harming our situational awareness, and also to defend Taliban base areas from allied incursions on the restricted road accesses to such areas, forcing any operations into them to arrive by air.

[dan]

I suspect that some of the older Mujahideen have fond memories of how effective stand-off anti-armour weaponry was against Soviet tanks...

[Alex]

There is after all a warlord about nicknamed "Rocketi"...

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