The forty-year war in Afghanistan : a chronicle foretold / Tariq Ali.
By: Ali, Tariq [author.]
Publisher: London : Verso, 2021Description: xxv, 244 pages : 1 mapContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781839768170; 9781839768217; 9781839768224Subject(s): North Atlantic Treaty Organization | Afghan War, 2001-2021 | Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001 | Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021 | Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 | Afghanistan -- History, Military -- 20th century | Afghanistan -- History, Military -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 958.104 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 958.103 DAL Return of a king : | 958.103 LOY Butcher & bolt / | 958.103 MAR Afghanistan : aid, armies and empires / | 958.104 ALI The forty-year war in Afghanistan : a chronicle foretold / | 958.104 TOM The wars of Afghanistan : messianic terrorism, tribal conflicts, and the failures of great powers / | 958.1045 BRA Afgantsy : the Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 / | 958.1045 CRI Charlie Wilson's war : |
I. Moscow, Washington, Lahore : 1979-2000 -- Soviet troops out of Afghanistan! -- Between the hammer and the anvil -- The arrival of the Taliban -- 'Try and disarm us if you can' -- II. Operation enduring disaster : 2001-08 -- Into Pakistan's maelstrom -- The king of greater Afghanistan -- The dam will burst sooner or later -- So, was it worth it? -- The terror trail -- A doomed mission -- A favourite attack dog in the imperial kennel -- Mirage of the good war -- Why a 'surge' would bring fresh disasters -- III. AF-PAK is burning : 2008-11 -- Next door to war -- The American war moves to Pakistan -- On the north-west frontier -- Imperial diktats -- A war gone badly wrong -- It's no secret what Pakistan's been doing with the Taliban -- 'Why kill the goose?' -- The Abbottabad incident -- More cover-up than self-criticism -- Breaches of sovereignty -- IV. Impending defeat : 2012-21 -- Obama's only way out of Afghanistan is to talk -- The not-so-lone gunman -- Pakistan's future is tied to the Taliban -- Twenty years after 9/11.