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" The Afghan Way of War : "
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558356
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b387279
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Robert Johnson
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The Afghan Way of War : : How and Why They Fight.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA,, 2011.
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(398 pages)
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| ISBN
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0199811539
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: 1283427397
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: 9780199811533
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: 9781283427395
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| Contents
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A contested history -- Dynastic struggles and popular resistance in Afghanistan: the era of the first Anglo-Afghan War, 1834-42 -- Asymmetrical war: the Afghan Civil War, 1863-6, and the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-81 -- The Pashtun rising: resistance in the Tirah Campaign, 1897-8 -- Frontier wars: the third Afghan War, 1919 and operations in Waziristan, 1936-47 -- The Soviet War: the mujahideen, ideology and guerrilla war, 1978-89 -- The Civil War, the Taliban and the insurgency, 1990-2011 249 -- Lessons learned?.
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Focusing on key episodes in Afghanistan's long history of conflict with foreign forces from the early nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the Afghan "Way of War." Robert Johnson shows that, contrary to the stereotypes of primi.
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