A military history of Afghanistan from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror 1800-2015
The first comprehensive history of the last two-plus centuries of warfare and international conflict in land-locked Afghanistan, from the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 1800s through the region's early 20th-century struggles to modernize, its last monarchy (1933-1973), the Soviet Union's so-call...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Lawrence, Kansas
University Press of Kansas
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Modern war studies
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The first comprehensive history of the last two-plus centuries of warfare and international conflict in land-locked Afghanistan, from the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 1800s through the region's early 20th-century struggles to modernize, its last monarchy (1933-1973), the Soviet Union's so-called "Vietnam War" in the 1980s, and America's "War on Terror," which began in 2001 and continues into the present. By an insider native Afghan author whose careers have encompassed military, government, and academic service |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 617 pages Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780700624072 978-0-7006-2407-2 |