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Opium continues to pose one of the most serious threats to stability and good governance in Afghanistan. Proceeds and protection fees from trafficking are funneled to terrorist and insurgent groups, including the Taliban and al Qaeda. Insurgents have successfully leveraged poppy eradication efforts to increase popular resistance to both the government in Kabul and the presence of coalition forces. Despite major increases in counternarcotics programs and resources over the past year, production has shot up 59 percent.

Document Type

Policy Brief

Region(s)

Middle East, South Asia

Topic(s)

National Security, Homeland Security, Defense Policy

Publication Date

11-2006

Publication

Strategic Forum

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Keywords

combating opium in Afghanistan, Afghanistan counter-narcotics strategy, Opium production and insurgency, Taliban and drug trade, U.S. counter-drug policy, illicit trafficking networks, stability operations in Afghanistan

Combating Opium in Afghanistan

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