KABUL looks set to intensify during the current year, warns an independent international organisation.
The objective behind the US strategy is to halt the Taliban’s momentum and, eventually, force the rebel group into a political settlement. But at the moment, the strategy is exclusively military.
In a report, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said the strategy -- facing serious obstacles -- was unlikely to change the war’s course or the incentives of a locally-rooted and potent insurgency.
Military leaders contend this time will . . .
