AFGHANISTAN: Kandahar security is key campaign test

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  • City and province
  • Formative history
  • Upturned leadership
  • Security vacuum
  • Taliban rise
  • US-Shirzai partnership
  • Post-2001 power struggles
  • Rivalry
  • Return?
  • Border control
  • Approaching powerbrokers

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