Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
A Knock on the Door
22 Months of ISAF Press Releases
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Capture‐or‐kill operations conducted by ISAF
have long been presented by the military as
one of the more effective parts of the...
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Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
A Knock on the Door
22 Months of ISAF Press Releases
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Capture‐or‐kill operations conducted by ISAF
have long been presented by the military as
one of the more effective parts of the
international military mission in Afghanistan.
Statistics speaking to this effectiveness are
released periodically through ISAF channels;
these tell of the numbers of ‘leaders’,
‘facilitators’ and/or ‘insurgents’ that were
killed or captured during a particular period.
A
closer examination of this data reveals a
certain amount of inconsistency, though,
particularly surrounding the classification of
who is considered an insurgent ‘leader’.
ISAF does not regularly release aggregate
numbers relating to the capture‐or‐kill raids –
or, indeed, the overall number of people that
have been captured or killed.
ISAF does,
however, issue daily press releases that detail
incidents resulting in death and/or de
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