Brigadier James Chiswell described insurgency in Afghanistan as 'increasingly fractured and increasingly demoralised' Former Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. A British military chief believes the insurgency in the country is weakening. Photograph: Reza Shirmohammadi/AP Amid widespread predictions of a bloody fighting season in Afghanistan, the commander of British forces there has described the Taliban-led insurgency as "increasingly fractured and increasingly demoralised"....