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The Taliban : Afghanistan's most lethal insurgents
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The Taliban : Afghanistan's most lethal insurgents / Mark Silinsky ; foreword by Raymond Taras.
ISBN
9780313398971 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
0313398976 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
9780313398988 (ebook)
Publication
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2014]
Physical Description
xx, 263 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 22, 2014
Series
PSI guides to terrorists, insurgents, and armed groups
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index.
Contents
Foreword / by Raymond Taras
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
Afghanistan's landscape, people, and islamism
Enter the Taliban
The taliban in power
The Taliban in defeat
The Taliban recover in Pakistan
The Taliban improve their tactics
Taliban Inc.
Affiliated insurgent groups and foreign sources of aid
The counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Afterword: dystopia
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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