…Experiences in contemporary military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown that commanders at all echelons need access to more information than their organic information collection assets can provide and more intelligence than their intelligence staffs…

…For example, given a list of Afghanistan provinces, with a generalized indicator list for Taliban use of criminal enterprises, the analyst can determine which provinces (in prioritized order with rationale) are most dangerous to the Afghan…

…Brainstorming is also effective in developing recommendations for information collection and targeting strategies. (For example, an analytical team in Afghanistan may conduct a brainstorming session to develop observables and indicators for Taliban shadow government activities in…

…In Afghanistan, garbled conversions caused problems for B-52s using joint direct attack munitions (JDAM) to attack cave entrances on vertical mountainsides. Steps have been taken to prevent datum errors from happening. Chairman of the Joint…

…The effects of the continuous SOF-directed air strikes so weakened the Taliban and al Qaeda that the Northern Alliance was able to quickly capture the major cities of Afghanistan early in the campaign. Various Sources

…and intelligence analysis, and leading the intelligence community-wide effort to find and characterize underground facilities in Afghanistan. —Admiral James Ellis Commander, United States Strategic Command Remarks to the House Armed Services Committee, 13 Mar 03

…US forces may provide logistic and training support as it did for the Mujahadin resistance in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. In certain circumstances the US can provide direct combat support, such as…

…In a parallel command construct, Commanding officer of 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, whose mission is to conduct counterinsurgency operations in partnership with the Afghan national security forces in southern Afghanistan, greets Afghan national army generals…

…A US Army soldier, assigned to provide security to a provincial reconstruction team in Afghanistan, greets the foreman of a local construction company during an inspection of a greenhouse project in eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province.