War and state-building in Afghanistan
Subtitle: historical and modern perspectives
By: edited by Scott Gates and Kaushik Roy
Series: Bloomsbury studies in military history
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781472572172; 9781472572189; 9781472572196
Subjects: Military History; Nation-building
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Continuity and change in asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan: from the Mughals to the Americans / Scott Gates, Kaushik Roy, Marianne Dahl and Håvard Mokleiv Nygård; title: Great Mughals, warfare and COIN in Afghanistan: 1520-1707 / Kaushik Roy; title: Counter-insurgency and empire: the British experience with Afghanistan and the north-west frontier, 1838-1947 / John Ferris; title: The conflict of war and politics in the Soviet intervention into Afghanistan: 1979-1989 / Pavel K. Baev; title: Al-Qaeda versus Najibullah: revisiting the role of foreign fighters in the battles of Jalalabad and Khost, 1989-92 / Anne Stenersen; title: The Afghan National Army and COIN: past, present and future reconsidered / Rob Johnson; title: Revising COIN: the stakeholder centric approach / Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud, Karsten Friis and Harald Håvoll; title: The country as a whole: imagined states and the failure of COIN in Afghanistan / Ivan Arreguín-Toft; title: Heart or periphery? Afghanistan's complex neighborhood relations / Kristian Berg Harpviken.