UID:
edocfu_9961373467502883
Format:
1 online resource (315 p.)
ISBN:
1-4725-7219-X
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1-350-01256-4
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1-4742-8635-6
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1-4725-7218-1
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury studies in military history
Content:
"The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, drawing on new archives and a synthesis of previous counter-insurgency experiences. Special emphasis is given to ecology, terrain and logistics to explain sub-conventional operations and state-building in Afghanistan. War and State-Building in Modern Afghanistan provides an overall synthesis of British, Russian, American and NATO military activities in Afghanistan, which directly links past experiences to the current challenges. These timely essays are particularly relevant to contemporary debates about NATO's role in Afghanistan; do the war and state-building policies currently employed by NATO forces undercut or enhance a political solution? The essays in this volume introduce new historical perspectives on this debate, and will prove illuminating reading for students and scholars interested in military history, the history of warfare, international relations and comparative politics."--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Continuity and change in asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan: from the Mughals to the Americans / Scott Gates, Kaushik Roy, Marianne Dahl and Håvard Mokleiv Nygård -- Great Mughals, warfare and COIN in Afghanistan: 1520-1707 / Kaushik Roy -- Counter-insurgency and empire: the British experience with Afghanistan and the north-west frontier, 1838-1947 / John Ferris -- The conflict of war and politics in the Soviet intervention into Afghanistan: 1979-1989 / Pavel K. Baev -- Al-Qaeda versus Najibullah: revisiting the role of foreign fighters in the battles of Jalalabad and Khost, 1989-92 / Anne Stenersen -- The Afghan National Army and COIN: past, present and future reconsidered / Rob Johnson -- Revising COIN: the stakeholder centric approach / Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud, Karsten Friis and Harald Håvoll -- The country as a whole: imagined states and the failure of COIN in Afghanistan / Ivan Arreguín-Toft -- Heart or periphery? Afghanistan's complex neighborhood relations / Kristian Berg Harpviken.
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Also issued in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4725-7217-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-23738-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350012561
