"The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about the longest war in American history"--
The Afghanistan War from the inside. Over 800 classified reports by the troops in the field, presenting the reality of how the war is being fought on the ground. Assassinations, demonstrations, ambushes, IEDs.
It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon but only after a stay of nearly two decades. In The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian provides the first comprehensive history of the entire conflict.
THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS - SUMMARY DISCLAIMER THIS IS NOT WRITTEN BY CRAIG WHITLOCK IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION BY CHRISTOPHER BURT THAT SUMMARISES CRAIG WHITLOCK BOOK IN DETAIL.
Reviews the emergence and fall of the Taliban, their ideology and their place within Islam, and examines Afghanistan's relevance to issues relating to Islamic extremism, the international drugs trade and international terrorism.
DISCLAIMER: This book is meant as a study guide or aide for the original book by Craig Whitlock, and is not in any anyway meant to replace it or be conflicted with it.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Traces the author's 2002 journey by foot across Afghanistan, during which he survived the harsh elements through the kindness of tribal elders, teen soldiers, Taliban commanders, and foreign-aid workers whose stories he collected along his ...
This vital book explains why and where failings in Afghanistan happened, warning against exceptionalist approaches to future peacebuilding missions around the globe.
... 172 opium production: in Afghanistan, 290–91, 326,331, 389 Outpost Keating (2009), 336,364 Pace, Peter (general): rejects troop surge, 235 Pakistan: aids bin Laden, 16, 69, 75 supports Taliban, 40–41, 68,78,90, 288–89, 312,320, 324, ...
... https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov /2015/07/12/pirates-an-early-test-for-the-new-country; Jack Kenny, “Bane of the Barbary Pi— rates,” New American, https://thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4709-bane-of-the -barbary-pirates.