What might the drone strike against Mullah Mansour mean for the counterinsurgency endgame? (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Bradley S. Porter, Brookings)

An American drone strike that killed leader of the Afghan Taliban Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour may seem like a fillip for the United States’ ally, the embattled government of Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani. But as Vanda Felbab-Brown writes in a new op-ed for The New York Times, it is unlikely to improve Kabul’s immediate national security problems—and may create more difficulties than it solves

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/05/25-targeting-the-afghan-taliban-felbabbrown-porter