Before the Taliban took Afghanistan, it took the internet

The Taliban has waged—and now won—a singular, focused, twenty-year information war.» An analysis of how the Taliban used the web, and later social media specifically, to lay the groundwork for their rapid takeover that has stunned much of the world. Over all those years, the Taliban’s core ideology hasn’t changed — «what has changed is their willingness to use modern technology to realize their medieval ends.»