This is followed by detailed accounts of the major battles and military campaigns.
This book concludes that there is room to engage the Taliban on the issues of renouncing al-Qaeda and guaranteeing that Afghanistan will deny sanctuary to international terrorists.
This book will also be of interest to the historian and general reader, who will discover that advances in technology have had little impact on this kind of war, and that many of the same tactics the British Army used on the Northwest ...
This is not a history of the Soviet-Afghan War, but rather a series of snapshots of combat as seen by young platoon leaders, company commanders, battalion commanders and military advisers.
This is both a personal and historical account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The work was translated into Pushto and published in Peshawar in 1930.
"In this volume which I present to the public, I have given a very brief abstract (except as to those places seldom visited or written about) of wanderings in Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa, with a literal transcript of that during my ...
In this timely and thorough volume, Michael Semple analyzes the rationale and effectiveness post-2001 attempts at reconciliation in Afghanistan.
'To guide us all through the three-star disasters of the Bush years I can think of no better pilot.' Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including such previously unused archival material as British Intelligence reports, this is a detailed study of the Afghan debate on the role of Islam in politics from the formation of the modern Afghan ...
"In April 1992, Phillip Corwin was in Afghanistan as part of a United Nations team whose mission was to help ensure the transfer of power from the Soviet-installed communist regime of President Najibullah to an interim authority that would ...
"Examines how the rule of law is understood conceptually and pragmatically-both on its own terms and as part of post-conflict state-building efforts.
A timely and eye-opening account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan (1979-89), from the high politics of the Kremlin to the lonely Russian conscripts in remote mountain outposts
Volume four opens with a large fold-out map showing Masson's journeys. Presented here is the complete 1844 edition.
The authors recommend three ways to improve unity of effort: all Operation ¿Enduring Freedom¿ forces (except SOF) should be merged into one common mission with international forces; decisionmaking authority between U.S. military and ...
If you want to read one book to understand the background to the political conflicts in Afghanistan and the Taliban's rise to power, this is the book.
If you read just one book about the Taliban, terrorism, and the United States, this is the place to start.
Author argues that the failure of Pakistan and Afghanistan to absorb Pashtuns into their sate structures and societies has been a critical failure of nation- and state-building
The only foreign representative would be a Muslim representative of British India, which controlled Afghanistan's foreign affairs. That arrangement has broken down so thoroughly, that Afghanistan is now the opposite of a buffer state.
Edwards contends that Afghanistan's troubles derive less from foreign forces and the ideological divisions between groups than they do from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan itself.
Explores how the history, climate, geography, ethnology, wars, and religion of Afghanistan have shaped the customs and practices of modern daily life in the mountains, deserts, and cities.
This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.
In practically all the peacekeeping operations of the 1990s, a postconflict reconstruction gap of almost one year separates the end of military peacekeepers' mission of halting mass violence from the start of removing mines as well as ...
The most comprehensive analysis of the current Afghanistan War yet published, by bestselling writer and legendary war reporter Sandy Gall
An analysis of the war in Afghanistan, as well as pre- and post-war actions, examines the failures in U.S. and British foreign policies that led to Osama bin Laden's escape at Tora Bora and lackluster efforts in supporting reconstruction.
This book presents the unique and complicated character of an Islamic revivalist movement like the Taliban, asking how the international community can and should deal with the conflict between Western thinking and the Taliban's ...
"A useful analysis of the Taliban and politics and society in Afghanistan today." (Foreign Affairs) "Highly recommended." (Choice) Composed of essays commissioned from the foremost experts on the Taliban, this anthology traces the movement ...
Traces Abdallah Azzam's path from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan and explains why jihadism went global.
This is the story of one man's endeavor to discover precious gems and to lead a life filled with loyal friends and extraordinary adventures.
Chronicles the Soviet Union's nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan in the 1980s and compares it to the challenges the United States may face in withdrawing from the region.
Immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East explores the stories of two families who left their home countries to find a better life in the United States.
A collection of articles written from 1989 to 2009, updated for this volume.
Based on extensive firsthand accounts, Ghost Warsok is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
This is the sequel to Breadwinner.
A "debut novel about a young Afghan orphan and the harrowing, intractable nature of war"--Amazon.com.
A "debut novel about a young Afghan orphan and the harrowing, intractable nature of war"--Amazon.com.
"A nuanced and human portrait of a generation of young Afghans who bought into the promise of the international intervention and were caught in the structures of the Forever War"--
Showing why Afghan activists often chose to use the leverage of Western powers instead of entering into either protracted negotiations with powerful national actors or broad political mobilization, the book examines both the achievements ...
Recounts the events surrounding the last battle of the Cold War and discusses how those events fueled the new jihad and led to the rise of militant Islam.
Charlie Wilson's War is the true story of how a Texas congressman and a rogue CIA agent conspired to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful CIA campaign ever-the operation to fund the mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet ...
We Answered the Call tells an untold story of success and hope from Operation Enduring Freedom. Wilhite recounts his amazing story, from the shock of an unexpected deployment To The tribulations of life in a war zone.
A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America's enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job.
When a media titan's daughter is kidnapped in Afghanistan and offered in exchange for the freedom of a top Al Qaeda operative, covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath undertakes a dangerous mission to free the terrorist from a Kabul ...
Analyse: Vie quotidienne (genre).
Ihre Beiträge vermitteln einen breiten Überblick über die ganze Problematik dieses kriegsversehrten Landes. Die derzeitige Lage Afghanistans wird vor dem historischen und kulturellen Hintergrund des Landes erhellt.
Spikelle Jordan is the star point guard for the Hedgehogs. Unfortunately for Spikelle, her Hedgehog teammates wouldn't mind a little more limelight for themselves. What's a talented Ball Hog to do?
Spikelle Jordan is the star point guard for the Hedgehogs. Unfortunately for Spikelle, her Hedgehog teammates wouldn't mind a little more limelight for themselves. What's a talented Ball Hog to do?
Nicole came to Afghanistan to make a killer war documentary, but when the helicopter she bribed to take her closer to the enemy gets shot down she finds a lot more action than she had bargained for--and it is up to an Army Special Forces ...
"Delightful and learned, and written in a crisp and vigorous style, this book will be read with great interest and profit by both scholars and general readers." —Stanley Burstein, author of The Reign of Cleopatra