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4) The rise of the Taliban in Afganistan: mass mobilization, civil war, and the future of the region
Author
Publisher
Palgrave
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Examines the internal ethnic and religious divisions, regional politics, and foreign intervention in Afghanistan that resulted in the rise of the Taliban.
6) Afghanistan
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Examines the genocide and persecution of the Afghani people.
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the geopolitical situation of post-Cold War Afghanistan; its interior ethnic, religious, social, and geographical differences; the effects of the Afghan war; and the changes that the Taliban have wrought on the nation.
10) Hamid Karzai
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and career of Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan.
12) Taliban oil
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is the unknown story of secret negotiations between the Taliban and America to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. When America invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the stated aim was to dismantle Al-Qaeda, denying it a safe base of operations by removing the Taliban from power. But Al-Qaeda claimed that the attack on the Twin Towers was a response to the Bush administration’s threats to attack Afghanistan if its demands for pipeline rights were...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Five times in the last two centuries. some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim Ansary shows in this illuminating history, every intervention has come to grief for much the same reason: the intervening power has failed to understand that Afghanistan has a story of its own, a story that continues to unfold between--and despite--the interventions. Drawing on his Afghan background, Muslim roots,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Based on unique inside access, the author of the New York Times bestseller Masters of Chaos explains how special operations forces are reshaping the U.S. military In One Hundred Victories, acclaimed military expert Linda Robinson shows how the special operations forces are-after a decade of intensive combat operations-evolving to become the go-to force for operations worldwide. Robinson has spent much of the last two years in Afghanistan studying...
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