The Afghanistan Wars - William Maley

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The Afghanistan Wars ...

Also by William Maley THE AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM (with David W. Lovell, lan McAllister and Chandran Kukathas) DEALING WITH ...

The Afghanistan Wars William Maley ...

© William Maley 2002 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publica- tion may be made without writte ...

For my mother, Jean Maley, and in Memory of my father, Raymond Maley, CVO ...

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Contents Acknowledgements viii Map x Introduction 1 1 The Road to War 5 2 Soviet Strategy, Tactics, and Dilemmas 37 3 The Develo ...

Acknowledgements Afghanistan is a remarkable country, almost as remarkable as its peoples. Over the course of the journey of man ...

Acknowledgements ix Susanne Schmeidl, Ralph Seccombe, Nazif Shahrani, Soliman Stanekzai, Barry Stride, Hiroshi Takahashi, Fiona ...

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Introduction Afghanistan is a land of extremes. For nearly fifty years of the twentieth century – from 1929 until 1978 – it was ...

was the so-called ‘Taliban movement’, a Pakistan-backed force of anti-modernist religious extremists from the Pushtun ethnic gro ...

complement works by Afghans such as Hassan Kakar’s Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979–1982(Kakar, 19 ...

the course of the Soviet–Afghan War: Chapter 4 deals with the period in which Babrak Karmal headed the Communist regime in Kabul ...

1 The Road to War The road to war in Afghanistan was not a straight one. There is by now a vast and sophisticated modern literat ...

between either known adversaries, or parties with sharply diver- gent interests. While the Soviet–Afghan War was not strictly an ...

Afghanistan crystallised as a territorial unit in the nineteenth century. Some of the lands which make it up had long carried th ...

The peoples of Afghanistan While ‘Afghanistan’ can be translated as ‘Land of the Afghans’, to read this as ‘Land of the Pushtuns ...

Afghanistan is first of all a multiethniccountry. Anthony Smith, in one of the most detailed studies of the dimensions of ethnic ...