The Afghan way of war
Subtitle: how and why they fight
By: Rob Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780199798568
Subjects: Afghanistan; Strategic culture; Asymmetric warfare; Military History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A contested history; title: Dynastic struggles and popular resistance in Afghanistan: the era of the first Anglo-Afghan War, 1834-42; title: Asymmetrical war: the Afghan Civil War, 1863-6, and the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-81; title: The Pashtun rising: resistance in the Tirah Campaign, 1897-8; title: Frontier wars: the third Afghan War, 1919 and operations in Waziristan, 1936-47; title: The Soviet War: the mujahideen, ideology and guerrilla war, 1978-89; title: The Civil War, the Taliban and the insurgency, 1990-2011 249; title: Lessons learned?.