Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict Thomas Johnson

Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict Thomas Johnson – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190840600,0190840609,9780190911676,0190911670

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0190911670
• ISBN 13: 9780190911676
• Author: Thomas H. Johnson
  

Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source materials, examines the information operations and related narratives of Afghan insurgents, especially the Afghan Taliban, and investigates how the Taliban has won the information war. Taliban messaging, wrapped in the narrative of jihad, is both to the point and in tune with its target audiences. On the other hand, the United States and its Kabul allies committed a basic messaging blunder, failing to present narratives that spoke to or, often, were even understood by their target audiences. Thomas Johnson systematically explains why the United States lost this “battle of the story” in Afghanistan, and argues that this defeat may have cost the US the entire war, despite its conventional and technological superiority.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. An Overview of Taliban and Other Afghan Insurgent Stories and an Assessment of their Master Narratives
Chapter 3. Target Audiences of Afghan Narratives and Stories
Chapter 4. Taliban and Afghan Insurgent Magazines, Circulars, and Newsletters
Chapter 5. The Taliban’s Use of Shabnamah (Night Letters)
Chapter 6. The Taliban’s Use of the Internet, Social Media Video, Radio Stations, and Graffiti
Chapter 7. The Afghans’ and Taliban’s Use of Poetry and Taranas
Chapter 8. The Layeha, the Taliban Code of Conduct
Chapter 9. Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) Propaganda Activities
Chapter 10. The United States’ Afghan Information and PSYOP Campaign and a Comparison with the Taliban’s Campaign
Chapter 11. Conclusions

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