Running to Disaster: Inside the Camps – Part 8
How mujahideen recruits were enlisted and trained, how suicide-bomber camps evolved into the ‘controlled’ bomber, and how al-Qaeda and ISIS grew from the war’s leftovers.
October 22, 2026
How mujahideen recruits were enlisted and trained, how suicide-bomber camps evolved into the ‘controlled’ bomber, and how al-Qaeda and ISIS grew from the war’s leftovers.
From Operation REBUS to the 1971 breakup and Bhutto’s fall: how KGB forgeries and planted stories worked on Pakistan’s leaders long before the Afghan war.
How Zia answered Moscow, how Murtaza Bhutto’s al-Zulfiqar worked with KHAD and the KGB, and how the US-Pakistan covert alliance in Afghanistan took shape.
From the 1978 Saur Revolution to the December 1979 invasion: how KGB assets, factional feuds and Taraki’s war on Islam turned Afghan resistance into jihad.
How the KGB’s active measures worked, why they targeted Pakistan after the Soviet invasion, and what the KGB’s own files show about its operations in India.
How USAID-funded textbooks taught Afghan and Pakistani children jihad from the first grade, and how Zia-era politics turned that curriculum into a pipeline of fighters.
CommandEleven’s eight-part study of how Pakistan’s radicalization and terrorism problem was built, from the US-funded ‘Alphabet of Jihad’ and KGB active measures to al-Qaeda and ISIS.
A doctrinal audit of the Madrassa Frontier as a cognitive battlespace. Deconstructing the Mosaic Defense, the 72/48 Resilience Protocol, and Hardware Truth.
A clinical audit of the Madrassa Pipeline as a Cognitive Frontier. Deconstructing asymmetric recruitment, the Sanitization Gap, and the requirement for Hardware Truth.
A clinical audit of the “Single-Trigger Threat” mechanism and the Indian ISKP-Pakistan narrative. Deconstructing Information Laundering, the Sanitization Gap, and Mosaic Defense.
A clinical audit of the delta between Western strategic intent and actual logistical capacity. It dismantles the myth of “unbeatable” hegemony by modeling the impact of the Levantine PGM drain on Pacific readiness.
Clinical audit of the UAE’s 2026 exit from OPEC, the ADNOC production surge, and the collapse of Saudi-Emirati energy cooperation.
Technical white paper on the Cost-Exchange Ratio (CER) and magazine exhaustion in the 2026 maritime battlespace.
Technical white paper on the CommandEleven Strategic Forecasting Framework (CESFF). Analyze the Unified Threat Matrix for 2026-2030 global threat modeling.
Detailed intelligence regarding IRGC sleeper cell infrastructure and potential activation vectors within the United States. Tactical threat assessment.
A tactical preview of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Iran, identifying key threat vectors and critical intelligence gaps.
Analyzing the outcomes of Millennium Challenge 2002 and their implications for modern asymmetric naval warfare and IRGC-N swarm tactics.
Technical breakdown of the IRGC’s proxy network and operational architecture across the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula.
Intelligence assessment of the thwarted Iranian plot in D.C., analyzing dead drop protocols and the utilization of criminal proxies.
Technical overview of Palantir’s data integration and AI architecture within the modern intelligence and surveillance ecosystem.
Analysis of the ‘Mosaic Defense’ doctrine—Tehran’s strategy for decentralizing military command to survive high-intensity conflict and domestic unrest.
CommandEleven’s updated threat assessment of terrorist targeting risk against US hospital infrastructure — covering attack vectors, known threat actor interest, and recommended security posture.
The threat assessment presented below is to advise and assist hospitals and trauma centers in preparing for an upcoming terrorist attack orchestrated by Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), as a prelude to a secondary attack by al Qaeda.
A CommandEleven primer on the Taliban — leadership hierarchy, ideology, governance approach as IEA, and the group’s relationship with Pakistan and international actors.
CommandEleven profiles the Haqqani Network — its origins, leadership under Sirajuddin Haqqani, ISI ties, and its role as the Taliban’s most lethal military arm inside the IEA.
CommandEleven examines how regional powers — Japan, India, South Korea, ASEAN — would position themselves in a China-Taiwan military conflict, and the geopolitical ripple effects across the Indo-Pacific.
Analyzing the export of regional insecurity from Afghan soil. Focus on TTP, ISKP, and the failure of border management protocols.
CommandEleven’s intelligence analysis of the 2023 Hamas-Israel War — covering the October 7 attack, Hamas’s operational planning, Iran’s role, and the broader implications for Middle East security.
Part 2 of Running to Disaster: the CIA, KGB and ISI in the Soviet-Afghan war, and how covert action and active measures seeded later terrorism.
Part 1 of Running to Disaster traces Pakistan’s terrorism to radicalization sown in the Soviet-Afghan war, madrassa growth and decades of policy failure.
Lt Gen Tariq Khan (Retd) argues the Peshawar mosque bombing and 2022’s 28% rise in attacks expose a state too poorly governed to counter terrorism.
Lt Gen Tariq Khan (Retd) on the New Great Game after the US exit from Afghanistan: Indo-US alignment, a closer Pakistan-China axis and Pakistan’s stakes.
PMOLeaks was not Pakistan’s first breach: a record of known hacks and leaks since 2008, the tradecraft behind them and the state’s failure to respond.
Andrew Korybko argues Russia’s S-400 sale to India complicates Pakistan’s security but won’t derail fast-improving Russia-Pakistan ties.
Andrew Korybko argues the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan railway lets Pakistan balance China, Russia and the US and lead the ECO.