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How to Keep the Taliban Flush With Bombs

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How to Keep the Taliban Flush With Bombs
Taliban fighters stand alert during a patrol in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 23, 2010. STR/Getty Images
Ernie Audino
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A terrorist can really express himself with 5,000 metric tons of explosives. That’s precisely why specialized teams of U.S. troops and contractors in Afghanistan helped account for and secure huge stockpiles of munitions stored at eight key sites across the country.

Ernie Audino
Ernie Audino
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Ernie Audino is a retired brigadier general, U.S. Army. He serves on the staff of U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz and is a senior military fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy and at Soran University in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He is the only American general officer to have previously served a full year on the battlefield embedded with Kurdish peshmerga forces.
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