Afghanistan – No Ungoverned Spaces Here: NSI Podcast 03

September 2018 No Comments

Speaker: Liebl, V. (Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL))

Podcast Preview

In NSI’s third podcast, Mr. Vern Liebl (Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL)) provides a holistic overview of the demography, culture, and population characteristics of Afghanistan. Mr. Liebl then breaks down different power dynamics and how they are partitioned up and down various levels of governance and across the societal fabric of Afghanistan. During the exclusive Q&A portion of the podcast, Mr. Liebl openly discusses Afghan society within the context of US strategy and what challenges lie before the US and coalition forces in establishing a stable Afghanistan.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that during this podcast, Mr. Liebl is speaking freely and only as a representative of himself.

Mr. Liebl is an analyst currently sitting as the Middle East Desk Officer in the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL). Mr. Liebl retired from the Marine Corps and has a background in intelligence, specifically focused on the Middle East and South Asia. Prior to joining CAOCL, Mr. Liebl worked with the Joint Improvised Explosives Device Defeat Organization as a Cultural SME, and before that with Booz Allen Hamilton as a Strategic Islamic Narrative Analyst. He has also published extensively on topics ranging from the Caliphate to Vichy French campaigns in WW2. Mr. Liebl is married to a Pashtun and has been to Afghanistan and Pakistan several times.

Listen to Podcast

If you have already listened to Mr. Liebl’s speaker session and would like to go straight to the exclusive interview portion, please skip ahead to [1:02:35].

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Coming Soon

Stay tuned for NSI’s next podcast, which will feature a SMA speaker session presented by MAJ Christopher Telley (Naval Postgraduate School) that focuses on the confluence of artificial intelligence applications driving the cutting edge of information operations and strategic threat that such systems represent, as well as an exclusive interview with MAJ Telley on other related topical issues.