The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes
English | August 17, 2006 | ISBN: 1594200963 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1.85 Mb
An NPR correspondent presents an account of the return to the violence and corruption of warlord activity in Afghanistan after the displacement of the Taliban, revealing how the U.S. government assisted the return of corrupt militia commanders to the country. 100,000 first printing.

Afghanistan 1979-88
by Galeotti, Mark;Groult, Edouard A.;, Edouard A Groult
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1472850718 | 97 pages | True EPUB | 39.02 MB

Afghanistan 1979-1988: Soviet Air Power against the Mujahideen (Osprey Air Campaign 35)
2023 | ISBN: 1472850718 | English | 97 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Local Politics in Afghanistan: A Century of Intervention in the Social Order By Conrad Schetter (editor)
2013 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 0199327920 | PDF | 2 MB
Afghanistan's people have contended with an almost continuous series of foreign interventions in their local affairs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only have external powers such as British India, the Soviet Union, Pakistan and NATO meddled egregiously in local affairs, but sohave Afghan governments, including monarchical, Communist, Islamist and ostensibly democratic ones. While the robust resilience of the Afghan population in the face of external influence is widely recognised, how the local populations have concretely dealt with these interventions and how localpolitics is structured in Afghanistan still remain somewhat open questions. This volume sheds light on this phenomenon as well as illuminating the complexities of local politics in Afghanistan, analysing also how the local social order is disturbed or reinforced by outside intervention. It alsoadvances our understanding of Afghan society by presenting local politics in a way that frees it from the false binary of romanticisation and demonisation. A central theme is understanding how rational objectives play out in local politics and are guided by social factors such as trust, solidarity,reciprocity and patronage. The book also explores the role jirgas and shuras have played in negotiating between the local and external interventionists.

Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B61SB593 | 2022 | 12 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Ben Kesling
Narrator: Ben Kesling

M. Nazif Shahrani, "Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 0253066778 | 2022 | 404 pages | PDF | 40 MB
When originally published in 1984, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provided the first focused consideration of the 1978 Saur Revolution and the subsequent Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. Nearly four decades later, its conclusions remain crucial to understanding Afghanistan today.

Massive Plunder of Afghanistan's Mineral Wealth : The US and NATO Burglars, Taliban, Islamic State of Khorasan, and Jihadist Groups of Central Asia, Go-fifty-fifty
by Musa Khan Jalalzai
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9389620104 | 278 Pages | True ePUB | 0.53 MB

Afghanistan
by Barfield, Thomas;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0691238561 | 457 pages | True PDF EPUB | 36.24 MB

Nick Turse, Tariq Ali, Andrew J. Bacevich, "The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan"
English | 2010 | pages: 212 | ISBN: 1844674517 | PDF | 7,2 mb
Known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan has now been singled out as Obama's "just war," the destination for an additional thirty thousand US troops in an effort to shore up an increasingly desperate occupation. Nick Turse brings together a range of leading commentators, politicians, and military strategists to analyze America's real motives and likely prospects. Through on-the-spot reporting, clear-headed analysis and historical comparisons with Afghanistan's previous occupiers-Britain and the Soviet Union, who also argued that they were fighting a just and winnable war-The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan carefully examines the current US strategy and offers sobering conclusions. This timely and focused collection aims at the heart of Obama's foreign policy and shows why it is so unlikely to succeed.

Daisaku Higashi, "Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and East Timor"
English | 2015 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 1138850403, 1138239852 | PDF | 11,0 mb
Peacebuilding is a critical issue in world politics. Surprisingly, however, there has not been a full examination of concrete policies and implementation strategies to generate legitimacy in "host states" by either international relations (IR) theorists or practitioners.