Militancy and conflict across the FATA and NWFP / by Brian Fishman -- Al-Qaeda's allies: explaining the relationship between al-Qaeda and various factions of the Taliban after 2001 / by Anne Stenersen -- North Waziristan / by Mansur Khan Mahsud, Anand Gopal, and Brian Fishman -- South Waziristan / by Mansur Khan Mahsud -- Pakistan's coin flip: the recent history of Pakistani military counterinsurgency operations in the NWFP and FATA / by Sameer Lalwani -- Drone strikes in Pakistan / by Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland -- My drone war / by Pir Zubair Shah -- FATA poll / by Peter Bergen, Patrick Doherty, and Ken Ballen -- Inside Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province: the changing political landscape / by Hassan Abbas -- Bajaur / by Rahmanullah -- The Swat Valley / by Daud Khattak -- Zabul and Uruzgan / by Martine van Bijlert -- Kandahar / by Anand Gopal -- Reconciliation / by Thomas Ruttig -- The 80 percent solution: the strategic defeat of bin Laden's al-Qaeda and implications for South Asian security / by Thomas F. Lynch III.
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The longest war the US has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. But by 'Afghanistan' we really mean a conflict that straddles the border with Pakistan - and the reality of Islamic militancy on that border is enormously complicated. This book examines in detail the embattled territory from Kandahar in Afghanistan to Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas.