Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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Understanding Tribalism In Afghanistan
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Posted by:
Duane R. Patterson at
4:21 PM
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Hugh continues fiction thriller week with Steven Pressfield today, author of Gates of Fire, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Killing Rommel, which will be discussed at length in the last two hours of the show today.
But in the first hour, Hugh and Steven will talk about the part of the world the Marines are getting to know real well - Afghanistan. Steven has done a lot of research on the Pashtunwali lifestyle practiced by the millions of tribesmen living along the Pakistani-Afghan border, and has come away with some insights he has compiled in a series of five video op-eds which you can view on his website here.
Each video in the series is about five minutes long, is shot very professionally, and is something every American interested in foreign policy should watch. It is wise to study the ways of those you are fighting, and Steven Pressfield has made it easy to do so.
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