Advances in weapons, intelligence gathering and intensity won't require "those tactics".
The terrain is just like it's always been, however. I looked at some aeronautical charts of Afghanistan, and you just can't believe how many 10,000 to 20,000 foot mountains and rock piles there are capable of concealing guerillas. And Osama did get his start building tunnels in them. Now he's had the last 15 years to add to his work unhindered by Soviet raids on them. It's not going to be easy. Much will depend on local support.
I did read where Bush is ready to do another "covert aid" number to anti-Taliban forces, in addition to and other than the NA, and Abdul Haq's name has popped up along with the ex-king's.
"In my opinion, the reaction by the international alliance will be soon," Abdullah Abdullah, the foreign minister for the Northern Alliance, said at a news conference in Tajikistan, speaking in English. "We have offered our willingness to cooperate."The NA's foreign minister calls himself Abdullah Abdullah. Hehe.