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The Taliban at war : 2001-2021 / Antonio Giustozzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giustozzi, Antonio, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taliban.
- Afghanistan--History--2001-2021.
- Afghanistan.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 pages)
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- 2022.
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The collapse of the Emirate and the early regrouping, 2002-4
- The apogeum of the Quetta Shura, 2005-9
- The emergence of alternative centres of power to Quetta
- The crisis of the Quetta Shura 2009-13
- The Taliban's tactical adaptation
- Organisational adaptation
- The troubled comeback of the Quetta Shura 2014
- Conclusion. The impossible centralisation of an anti-centralist movement
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-766164-5
- 0-19-009964-X
- 0-19-750712-3
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