The wars of Afghanistan : messianic terrorism, tribal conflicts, and the failures of great powers / Peter Tomsen.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomsen, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2011]
Subjects:
Terrorism > Afghanistan.
Messianism > Afghanistan.
Islam and politics > Afghanistan.
Tribes > Afghanistan.
Social conflict > Afghanistan.
Great powers.
Afghanistan > Politics and government.
Afghanistan > History.
Afghanistan > History, Military.
Afghanistan > Foreign relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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