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A Stay in Afghanistan during Resolute Support: Recent On-the-Ground Experiences. A soldier's perspective
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Abstract The return in late June 2021 of the last German soldiers from the Resolute Support Mission to Afghanistan remained as unnoticed by the German media as the topic Afghanistan itself during the last years. Only when Kabul fell to the Taliban did the decades-long friendly disinterest turn into a broad p... view more
The return in late June 2021 of the last German soldiers from the Resolute Support Mission to Afghanistan remained as unnoticed by the German media as the topic Afghanistan itself during the last years. Only when Kabul fell to the Taliban did the decades-long friendly disinterest turn into a broad public discussion of German (military) efforts in Afghanistan. Though seemingly everyone, including politicians and the media, was stunned by the Taliban's swift progress, my comrades who had served in Afghanistan were not, no matter what rank they carried or when they had been posted there.... view less
Keywords
Afghanistan; military; military presence; islamism; Taliban; political change; political movement; terrorism
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
TAAC-N; resolute support; soldier’s perspective
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 103-112
Journal
EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 24 (2022) 1
Issue topic
The Fall of Kabul 2021: Backgrounds, Effects, Resonance / Der Fall Kabuls 2021: Hintergründe, Effekte, Resonanzen
ISSN
2199-7942
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed