Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field (Columbia/Hurst)
A valuable collection... [that] offer[s] important clues that could help to answer some of the most pressing foreign policy questions now confronting the Obama administration.(David RhodeThe New Republic)This well-researched book contains valuable insight on the command and control of the Taliban.(Military Review)Decoding the New Talibanis a serious and comprehensive collection of essays written by authorities on their subject matter that will directly benefit those who find themselves on the ground with the Afghan people and among the still evolving Neo-Taliban.(John WilliamsMiddle East Quarterly1900-01-00)An outstanding and important collection -- just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis... that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents... as up-to-date as scholarship can be(The New Yorker)