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What we won America's secret war in Afghanistan, 1979-89
Author
Title
What we won [electronic resource] : America's secret war in Afghanistan, 1979-89 / Bruce Riedel.
ISBN
081572585X
9780815725855
0815725841
9780815725848 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780815725954 (paperback : acid-free paper)
Published
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Political Science and Policy Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 18, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction and acknowledgments
Part 1. The players
The Afghan communists
The main enemy : the Soviets
The Afghan Mujahedin
The Pakistanis : Zia's war
The Saudis : financiers and volunteers
Part 2. The U.S. war
Jimmy Carter's war
Reagan and Casey
Endgames without end
Lessons of the secret war.
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