Spies, Stealth and Threats: How Militants Infiltrated a Vital Army Base

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-bastion.html?utm_source=RC+Defense+Morning+Recon&utm_campaign=c7aac75844-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_15_09_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_694f73a8dc-c7aac75 [login to see] 3
Infiltration tactics - well planned - and rehearsed - still succeed - even in an age where over confidence in total air superiority and total intelligence suv seem to have doomed such efforts. It is yet again the Taliban teaching and reteaching a lesson. How to conduct an operation that even if defeated tactically --- becomes a strategic victory. Such an operation forces an opponent to spread their forces out to defend everything -- and have less forces to conduct offensive operations. It is a critical lesson for small nations that have bigger enemies - and one we should not be forgetting again.