Red Flag Over Afghanistan
Author: Thomas T Hammond
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Communist Coup, The Soviet Invasion, And The Consequences, Volume 35
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Red Flag Over Hindu Kush: Leftist movements in Afghanistan
Author: Louis Dupree
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuperpowers Defeated
Author: Douglas A. Borer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1136316574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Cold War, military conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan validated the importanct of war in global power dynamics. But military intervention proved not to be politically sustainable for the USA and the USSR. This study investigates the parallels and differences in the two conflicts.
The Wrong Enemy
Author: Carlotta Gall
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0544045688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times). Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right after 9/11, when US special forces helped the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban out of the north and then the south, fighting pitched battles and causing their enemies to flee underground and into Pakistan. Gall knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people—and just how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Combining searing personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of the ordinary Afghans who were caught up in the conflict for more than a decade, The Wrong Enemy is a sweeping account of a war brought by American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage.
Afghanistan
Author: J. Bruce Amstutz
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1994-07
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 0788111116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. J. Bruce Amstutz, U.S. charge d'affaires in Kabul from 1977 to 1980, begins his treatment of the first five years of Soviet occupation with an historical overview of years of Russian meddling in Afghan affairs. He follows this account with a first-hand report of the 1979 invasion, and analyzes the intervention from political, military, and economic perspectives. Important issues are: Afghan political factions, leaders, the human rights and refugee problems, diplomatic efforts to settle conlict, and Soviet measures to repress the Afghans. Photos.
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan
Author: M. Nazif Shahrani
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2022-11
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0253066786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen originally published in 1984, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provided the first focused consideration of the 1978 Saur Revolution and the subsequent Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. Nearly four decades later, its conclusions remain crucial to understanding Afghanistan today. In this much-anticipated re-release, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan offers an opportunity for fresh insight into the antecedents of the nation's enduring conflicts. A new foreword by editors M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield contextualizes this collection, which relies on extensive fieldwork in the years leading up to the Soviet invasion. Specific tribal, ethnic, and gender groups are considered within the context of their region, and contributors discuss local responses to government decrees, Islamic-inspired grassroots activism, and interpretations of jihad outside of Kabul. Long recognized as a vital ethnographic text in Afghan studies, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provides an extraordinary chance to experience the diversity of the Afghan people on the cusp of irrevocable change and to understand what they expected of the years ahead.
Central Asia, Security, and Strategic Imperatives
Author: Tabassum Firdous
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9788178350790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present study offers an assessment of security concerns in Central Asia after the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991. It deals with the transition period for the five Central Asian States from the communist system to a democratic and pluralistic one. Essentially, the focus of the writer is on bilateral, multilateral and international commitments of these States to ensure peace and security in the region. The withdrawal of nuclear warheads from Kazakhstan, collective security formula, bilateral agreements and the role of the big powers all make an interesting study. The author has discussed these concerns in the context of the stance of neighbouring States vis-a-vis Central Asia. Economic interests also figure wherever necessary. This work is highly useful to those who would like to concentrate on any aspect of history in Central Asia and adjoining regions in the post-Soviet period.
Ouroboros
Author: Phil W. Reynolds
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1498590926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at partisan groups such as the FLN, the Vietcong, and the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism assesses how they convert their knowledge of self into tactical and strategic advantages that nullify the Clausewitzian advantages in the distribution of military power. Reynolds argues that liberalism has a global transformative mission that requires an ideologically democratic core and an illiberal periphery. By assessing the ouroboros, which sees action as definitive and final, the book explains how it powers the new strategy of preemption that intervenes in the periphery, ostensibly to set up democratic, security-centered adjuncts.
US-Pakistan Relationship
Author: A.Z. Hilali
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1351876236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHilali provides an excellent study into the US-Pakistan partnership under the Reagan administration. The book explores the causes of Pakistan's involvement in the Afghanistan war and the United States' support to prevent Soviet adventurism. It shows that Pakistan was the principal channel through which assistance was provided to Afghan freedom fighters; it also provided access to its military bases to use against the Soviet Union. The study looks at the consequences of the war on Pakistan and explains how it became enmeshed within its domestic politics. Furthermore, it evaluates the role of Pakistan as a key partner in the global coalition against terrorism and discusses how General Pervez Musharraf brought about Pakistan's development towards a progressive, moderate and democratic society. Ideally suited to courses on foreign policy.
The Tragedy of Afghanistan
Author: Bo Huldt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1000357228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 stunned the world and ushered in a new period of superpower confrontation. Research into Afghan society was severely curtailed, and the ability to research the Afghan resistance was non-existent. This book, first published in 1988, was the result of a Swedish seminar that focused on the results of the war on the people and culture of Afghanistan.
