The Afghan way of war: how and why they fight 978-0-19-979856-8, 0199798567
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English Pages 375 Year 2012
Table of contents :
Content: Introduction : a contested history --
Dynastic struggles and popular resistance in Afghanistan : the era of the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1834-42 --
Asymmetrical war : the Afghan Civil War, 1863-6, and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-81 --
The Pashtun rising : resistance in the Tirah Campaign, 1897-8 --
Frontier wars : the Third Afghan War, 1919 and operations in Waziristan, 1936-47 --
The Soviet War : the Mujahideen, ideology and Guerrilla War, 1978-89 --
The civil war, the Taliban and the insurgency, 1990-2011 --
Lessons learned ?
