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The wars of Afghanistan : messianic terrorism, tribal conflicts, and the failures of great powers /
An insider's account of Afghanistan's history since the 1970s and how the CIA's covert operations and the Pentagon's military strategy have strengthened extremism in the country.
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New York, NY :
PublicAffairs,
[2011]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: Tribal Incubator -- Padshahgardi -- Shatter Zone -- Tribe and Mosque -- Modernizing Monarchs -- Red Sunrise -- Part II: Fission -- Commissar Meets Tribesman -- Big Fox Catches Little Fox -- Green Dawn -- Insubordinate Puppets -- The General's Vision -- Part III. Mission to the Mujahidin -- Mission Impossible -- Potemkin Government -- Pakistan Pivots -- Tilting at Windmills -- Wahhabi Emirate -- Desperately Seeking Moderates -- Irreconcilable Policies -- From Marx to Mullahs -- From One War to the Next -- Part IV: America and Afghanistan -- Unholy Alliance -- Between the Lions -- Yankee Meets Tribesman -- From Victory to Stalemate -- Needed: Real Change -- The Way Ahead. | |
| 520 | |a An insider's account of Afghanistan's history since the 1970s and how the CIA's covert operations and the Pentagon's military strategy have strengthened extremism in the country. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Social conflict |z Afghanistan. | |
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| 651 | 0 | |a Afghanistan |x Politics and government. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Afghanistan |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Afghanistan |x History, Military. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Afghanistan |x Foreign relations. | |
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