Indian Jones to the Rescue || Ancient Nomads Offer Insights to Modern Crises

“Take Afghanistan, where politics are much more dispersed. I think some of our foreign policy complications derive from our inability to locate a nomadic dynamic within contemporary political structures.”

Countries like Iraq and Afghanistan may take on the trappings of
modern, Western nation-states, with parliaments, justice departments
and other governmental agencies, researchers say. But politics are
still driven by the customs and institutions of nomadism, in which
political disputes were settled at the level of family, clan and tribe.