Information Operations in Afghanistan

The Taliban is way out in front of the coalition forces in the use of information operations.  Considering our technological advantages in this area and the humongous amounts of money we are pouring into this country one wonders why this is so.  It does appear that the coalition forces are trying to do something about this.  Read a recent news article on this topic that describes some of the radio programming Radio Free Europe has done and the distribution of small radios that has taken place.  See "US-funded station distributes thousands of radios to counter Taliban propaganda", Fox News, September 17, 2010.