The Wars of Afghanistan : Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers (Hardcover)

from jcbrunner

Too many words, Your Excellency, too many words. If somebody had checked the author's vanity, this could have been an excellent book. When it finally hits its stride in the account of Bush's war it is concise and hard-hitting. To arrive to this point, the reader has to wade through two morasses. ...

from SGTCat

This is a MUST read book by a former US government official that had dealings with and in Afghanistan from the time of the Soviet occupation. It is very well documented and presents a view of why Afghanistan has failed to coalesce as a modern nation state and why America is failing at nation-buil...

from SGTCat

This is a MUST read book by a former US government official that had dealings with and in Afghanistan from the time of the Soviet occupation. It is very well documented and presents a view of why Afghanistan has failed to coalesce as a modern nation state and why America is failing at nation-buil...