A good article about it from 2015, and how the corruption helps the insurgency (e.g. the locals would be thinking "Why should I warn the corrupt idiots about th

A good article about it from 2015, and how the corruption helps the insurgency (e.g. the locals would be thinking "Why should I warn the corrupt idiots about that IED targetting their shiny black SUVs?"): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-revolt https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev... It's a book review of "Thieves of State", which is also a good read. Hah I just scrolled through that article again, and it ends with: In September [2014], the former World Bank official and good-governance expert Ashraf Ghani was sworn in as the new President of Afghanistan, amid widespread allegations of vote-tampering. He has promised to tackle corruption.