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

著者名：Johnson, Thomas H.

Oxford University Press（2018/02/01発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190840600
• eISBN：9780190911676

Description

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 of Contents

Foreword, by Ambassador Peter TomsenPrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: An Overview of Taliban and Other Afghan Insurgent Stories and an Assessment of their Master NarrativesChapter 3: Target Audiences of Afghan Narratives and StoriesChapter 4: The Taliban and Other Afghan Insurgents' Use of Magazines, Circulars, and NewslettersChapter 5: The Taliban's Use of Shabnamah (Night Letters)Chapter 6: The Taliban's Use of the Internet, Social Networking, Videos, Radio Stations, and GraffitiChapter 7: The Afghans' and Taliban's Use of Poetry and Taranas as Effective Communication ToolsChapter 8: The Layeha, the Taliban Code of ConductChapter 9: Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) Propaganda ActivitiesChapter 10: The United States' Afghan Information and PSYOP Campaign and a Comparison with the Taliban's CampaignChapter 11: ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsAppendicesAppendix A: How Afghans Identify the Types of TalibanAppendix B: Summary of Taliban Night Letters, 2008-10Appendix C: HIG Official Peace Proposal and Translation