A military history of Afghanistan : from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jalali, Ali Ahmad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
Series:Modern war studies.
Subjects:
HISTORY > Military > Afghan War (2001- )
Strategic aspects of individual places
Afghanistan > Strategic aspects.
Afghanistan > History, Military.
Afghanistan
Military history
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A distinct geography and a turbulent history
  • Highlights of the past, ancient era to 1800
  • The great game and the British invasion of Afghanistan, 1809-1839
  • The first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842
  • Geopolitical changes in Central Asia leading to the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1878
  • The second phase of the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1879-1881
  • A period of uneasy peace and the third Anglo-Afghan war, 1880-1919
  • Afghanistan under King Amanullah and the civil war, 1919-1929
  • The Cold War and the Soviet invasion, 1929-1979
  • Soviet occupation and the war of resistance, 1979-1989
  • The civil war and the rise of the Taliban, 1989-2001
  • U.S. invasion, the fall of the Taliban and the Bonn process, 2001-2005.

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