Every Nato Kill-Capture Mission In Afghanistan Is Detailed By The Guardian

Afghanistan kill-capture raids interactive map.

Every Nato Kill-Capture Mission In Afghanistan Detailed And Visualized -- The Guardian

"Kill/capture" missions by Isaf in Afghanistan mushroomed under General David Petraeus. But did they achieve anything? A comprehensive new database attempts to find out.

How successful has Nato's strategy been in Afghanistan?

Under General David Petraeus, a major plank of Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) strategy has been "kill/capture raids" - lightning strikes on senior Taliban personnel to either take prisoner or kill.

But have they worked? Isaf supplies no consistent data on the policy, other than issuing a string of press releases claiming success after success, releases which often describe several raids in different places simultaneously. Researchers Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn wanted to find out exactly how the missions worked.

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My Comment: The data for this report is here. The interactive map is here. Using this data, Julian Borger at The Guardian has a must read post on questioning this strategy.