In certain occasions, they have been able to show how to use surprise — elements of surprise, mobility and fire power.

We suspect that the Taliban has a hundred useable tanks, which isn’t that many. On the books they probably have 600, but most of those are inoperative.

They are set up along the line of task forces. … They throw together whatever the elements they need to do the job at hand.

This bears all the hallmarks of a Hezbollah type of operation.

It would appear that it was a buried 50 kg (110 pound) device, and it may have been very simple. It was command (remotely) detonated at the front of the tank, blowing the engine clean...