DOD: "..Taliban has coalesced into a resilient insurgency..in its ability to regenerate combat power by leveraging tribal networks.."

Via AbouMuqawama, "...Late Friday night, the Pentagon released two congressionally mandated reports evaluating the progress of international efforts in Afghanistan.
The first, Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, provides an assessment of developments from 2001 through April of this year. The companion report, United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces, as the title suggests, provides a “long-term plan for sustaining the ANSF...."