عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0199811539
(Number (ISBN
1283427397
(Number (ISBN
9780199811533
(Number (ISBN
9781283427395
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b387279
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The Afghan Way of War :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
How and Why They Fight.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oxford
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press, USA,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(398 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
A contested history -- Dynastic struggles and popular resistance in Afghanistan: the era of the first Anglo-Afghan War, 1834-42 -- Asymmetrical war: the Afghan Civil War, 1863-6, and the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-81 -- The Pashtun rising: resistance in the Tirah Campaign, 1897-8 -- Frontier wars: the third Afghan War, 1919 and operations in Waziristan, 1936-47 -- The Soviet War: the mujahideen, ideology and guerrilla war, 1978-89 -- The Civil War, the Taliban and the insurgency, 1990-2011 249 -- Lessons learned?.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Focusing on key episodes in Afghanistan's long history of conflict with foreign forces from the early nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the Afghan "Way of War." Robert Johnson shows that, contrary to the stereotypes of primi.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Robert Johnson
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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