To begin with, the Taliban has always had a clerical command-and-control infrastructure that transcended - without displacing or effacing - the tribal, linguistic and communal identities of its constituent elements. But it has always had two advantages over those two ruling coalitions. In this, it is no different than either the coalition of warlords that governed Afghanistan directly from 1992 to 1996 or the one that governed Afghanistan through the “state” created by the U.S.
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