Bill Roggio:
Yeah, the insurgents — the Taliban's objectives is to seize control of Afghanistan, to reestablish Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, that's the name of its government prior to the U.S. invasion. It will do it by force or it will do it via diplomacy, and via diplomacy means the Taliban will accept the Afghan government surrender.
The Afghan government isn't surrendering so the Taliban is taking it by force. It has focused on taking areas in the west and particularly in the north, these are strategic areas for the Afghan government. Many Afghan power brokers are based in the north, which is where they derived their power.
And the Taliban could easily take much to have the south and east if it focused its forces there, but, instead, what the Taliban decided to do is to go straight after the government strength, and that's why seven of the nine provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan are in Taliban control, and the two provinces in western Afghanistan, they also are under Taliban control.
The Taliban ultimately seeking to surround Kabul, strangle it and either force the surrender or militarily take the capital of Kabul.
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