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Author Jalali, Ali Ahmad, author.

Title A Military History of Afghanistan : From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror / Ali Ahmad Jalali.

Publication Info. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  355.009581 J216m 2017    ---  Available
Description xvi, 617 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Series Modern war studies
Modern war studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-595) and index.
Contents A distinct geography and a turbulent history -- Highlights of the past, ancient era to 1800 -- The great game and the British invasion of Afghanistan, 1809-1839 -- The first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842 -- Geopolitical changes in Central Asia leading to the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1878 -- The second phase of the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1879-1881 -- A period of uneasy peace and the third Anglo-Afghan war, 1880-1919 -- Afghanistan under King Amanullah and the civil war, 1919-1929 -- The Cold War and the Soviet invasion, 1929-1979 -- Soviet occupation and the war of resistance, 1979-1989 -- The civil war and the rise of the Taliban, 1989-2001 -- U.S. invasion, the fall of the Taliban and the Bonn process, 2001-2005.
Summary The first comprehensive history of the last two-plus centuries of warfare and international conflict in land-locked Afghanistan, from the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 1800s through the region's early 20th-century struggles to modernize, its last monarchy (1933-1973), the Soviet Union's so-called "Vietnam War" in the 1980s, and America's "War on Terror," which began in 2001 and continues into the present. By an insider native Afghan author whose careers have encompassed military, government, and academic service.
Subject Afghanistan -- History, Military.
Afghanistan -- Strategic aspects.
Strategic aspects of individual places. (OCoLC)fst01355062
Afghanistan. (OCoLC)fst01205406
Genre/Form Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
ISBN 9780700624072 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700624074
9780700624089 (ebook)

 
    
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