War and state-building in Afghanistan : historical and modern perspectives / edited by Scott Gates and Kaushik Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gates, Scott, editor, author.

Roy, Kaushik, 1971- editor, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in military history.

Bloomsbury studies in military history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building--Afghanistan.

Nation-building.

Afghanistan--History, Military.

Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, drawing on new archives and a synthesis of previous counter-insurgency experiences. Special emphasis is given to ecology, terrain and logistics to explain sub-conventional operations and state-building in Afghanistan. War and State-Building in Modern Afghanistan provides an overall synthesis of British, Russian, American and NATO military activities in Afghanistan, which directly links past experiences to the current challenges. These timely essays are particularly relevant to contemporary debates about NATO's role in Afghanistan; do the war and state-building policies currently employed by NATO forces undercut or enhance a political solution? The essays in this volume introduce new historical perspectives on this debate, and will prove illuminating reading for students and scholars interested in military history, the history of warfare, international relations and comparative politics."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Continuity and change in asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan: from the Mughals to the Americans / Scott Gates, Kaushik Roy, Marianne Dahl and Håvard Mokleiv Nygård

Great Mughals, warfare and COIN in Afghanistan: 1520-1707 / Kaushik Roy

Counter-insurgency and empire: the British experience with Afghanistan and the north-west frontier, 1838-1947 / John Ferris

The conflict of war and politics in the Soviet intervention into Afghanistan: 1979-1989 / Pavel K. Baev

Al-Qaeda versus Najibullah: revisiting the role of foreign fighters in the battles of Jalalabad and Khost, 1989-92 / Anne Stenersen

The Afghan National Army and COIN: past, present and future reconsidered / Rob Johnson

Revising COIN: the stakeholder centric approach / Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud, Karsten Friis and Harald Håvoll

The country as a whole: imagined states and the failure of COIN in Afghanistan / Ivan Arreguín-Toft

Heart or periphery? Afghanistan's complex neighborhood relations / Kristian Berg Harpviken.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and index.

ISBN:

9781472572196

147257219X

9781350012561

1350012564

9781474286350

1474286356

9781472572189

1472572181

OCLC:

894506791