TAR Kunduz Attack Oct16

PURPOSE:

• To describe the Taliban occupation of and subsequent withdrawal under pressure from Kunduz City, Afghanistan, in 2015.
• To inform the Army training community of current examples of a dispersed attack and an area defense utilized by an insurgent group.
• To identify current tactics and techniques used by the Taliban in Afghanistan and show the connectivity to the tactics, threat doctrine, and conditions presented in other training materials such as the Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE).