AFGHANISTAN: Drug pressures may divide Taliban
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In this article
- Military strategy
- Financial management
- Political power-brokering
- World opium hub
- Declining production
- Better yields
- Taxing the industry
- Opium levy
- Heroin and morphine
- Higher-order levies
- The Taliban connection
- Local mercenary arrangements
- Direct involvement
- After Baradar
- Treasury disruption
- Weakening central control
- Outlook
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