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This monograph aims to provide military leaders, civil servants, diplomats, and students with the intellectual basis they need to prepare for further study or for assignments in Afghanistan, a nation that has been at war for 33-years...By analyzing the land and its people, recapping Afghan history, and assessing the current situation, this work hopes to set a foundation upon which leaders and scholars can begin their preparation for more specific...
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Sixteen top-notch academicians, generals and young scholars were invited to discuss the topic 'American Withdrawal from Afghanistan in December 2014: Post-withdrawal Puzzle of Policy Options for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan' post-American withdrawal from Afghanistan scenario after December 2014 and puzzle of policy options for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Obviously, the US, Russia and China are compulsive players In the game. Bharat Kamad thinks...
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When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment. However, as the campaign has evolved and the insurgency has proved to more resistant and capable, key operational imperatives have emerged, including military support to the civilian development effort, closer partnering with Afghan security forces, and greater...
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It's naturally easier to learn something when it's set to rhythmic music, so that is exactly what we've done. Simple words and phrases are set to a varied pattern of rhythms and music designed to help you learn and to keep you engaged so that you won't just switch off after five minutes. It will give you an easy road into starting to learn a completely new language. If you just want a few simple words and phrases before going abroad, Rhythms is all...
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"Chaos reigns in the wake of the collapse of Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government. In the rural, warlord-ruled south, a student is badly beaten at a checkpoint run by bandits. His mullah, who leads a madrassa for orphans left behind by Afghanistan's civil war, leads his students back to the checkpoint and forces the bandits out. His actions set in motion a chain of events that will change the balance of power in his country and send shock waves...
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"Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the...
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"The American War in Afghanistan is a full history of the war in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2020. It covers political, cultural, strategic, and tactical aspects of the war and details the actions and decision-making of the United States, Afghan government, and Taliban. The work follows a narrative format to go through the 2001 US invasion, the state-building of 2002-2005, the Taliban offensive of 2006, the US surge of 2009-2011, the subsequent drawdown,...
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Sonita was born in a refugee camp in Pakistan after her family fled Afghanistan during the war in the early 2000s. Unwelcome in Pakistan, her family returns to Afghanistan, where Sonita and her family face new challenges. Interspersed with facts about Afghanistan and its people, this narrative tells a story common to many refugees fleeing the country. Readers will learn about the decades of conflict in Afghanistan and how they can help refugees in...
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Avenger Wrath est l'histoire d'un Hog Driver et de sa chevauchée pendant la guerre en Afghanistan, opérant depuis la base aérienne de Bagram avec la magnifique chaîne de montagnes afghane, bien que mortelle, en toile de fond. L'A-10 a été utilisé presque constamment en Afghanistan, se révélant une fois de plus comme une plate-forme d'armes formidable et capable. Cette version révisée et mise à jour du livre est devenue plus poignante car...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Afghanistan is a landlocked country that lies in the heart of Asia. It has been invaded by numerous armies over the course of history, and has been a center of many different empires ruled by outsiders.
#2 The anthropological approach of this book gives prominence to both culture and history, which is why it is important to discuss political order in the abstract...
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Count your way from one (yao) to ten (lahs) in Pashto! Using simple text, authors Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson introduce readers to the Afghan culture. Learn about everything from Afghanistan's one blue mosque to ten kites flying in the sky over Kabul. Colorful illustrations bring modern Afghanistan to life.
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Afghanistan has been a tinderbox for centuries. A major crossroads between East and West, it has seen many armies invade with impunity its rough and varied terrain-from Alexander the Great's in the 4th century BC to the Soviet and NATO forces of our own time. This clear introduction covers Islam, the Pashtun majority, the constant internecine strife, the powerful leaders-all from an historical perspective, which helps to explain the country's current...
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Love and War in Afghanistan presents true stories of fourteen ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan. In a quarter-century of uninterrupted war, the people of Afghanistan have endured foreign invasions, ethnic strife, a fundamentalist Islamic totalitarian regime, and the unending crossfire of rival warlord factions. The country remains an object of fascination for journalists, academics, and filmmakers from around the world. In the...
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Compelling, provocative and informative, Mahmood Tarzi Diplomacy and Journalism is an eclectic set of events, media happenings, and political developments in Afghanistan from the rise of the power of Amir Abdul Rahman Khan to the downfall of the reign of Amanullah Khan. Written by Dr. M. Halim Tanwir, this political and historical page-turner takes readers to the period where the press and the particularly famous character Mahmood Tarzi, the founder...
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"...a dramatic, sobering account of prejudice and the mistreatment of women in combat zones." - Publishers Weekly
Not even old enough to drink, Corporal Savannah Cannon is a young enlisted United States Marine deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2010. As a tactical data networking specialist, she is sent away from everyone she knows and attached to a Regimental Combat Team where women are not allowed to repair communications....
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A clear-eyed view of the conflict in Afghanistan and its century-deep roots.
The war in Afghanistan has consumed vast amounts of blood and treasure, causing the Western powers to seek an exit without achieving victory. Seemingly never-ending, the conflict has become synonymous with a number of issues-global jihad, rampant tribalism, and the narcotics trade-but even though they are cited as the causes of the conflict, they are in fact symptoms.
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Against a backdrop of war, poverty, extreme physical injury, disability and suffering the reader accompanies physiotherapy teacher Ian Edwards on a thirty year journey of experiences in war devastated Afghanistan and impoverished and remote rural Mexico.
This story traverses the full spectrum of humanity, from violence and social injustice to unreserved hospitality and compassion. Edwards reflects upon and makes sense of these experiences in self...
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War is the most brutal of human endeavors, and I have experienced enough war to know to take cover, when politicians and poets, and armchair warriors, speak extravagantly of patriotism and national honor. Join Major General Schloesser in the daily grind of warfare fought in the most forbidding of terrain, with sometimes uncertain or untested allies, Afghan corruption and Pakistani bet hedging, and the mounting casualties of war which erode and bring...
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