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The Taliban : Afghanistan's most lethal insurgents / Mark Silinsky ; foreword by Raymond Taras.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silinsky, Mark.
- Series:
- PSI guides to terrorists, insurgents, and armed groups.
- PSI guides to terrorists, insurgents, and armed groups
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taliban.
- Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan.
- Islamic fundamentalism.
- Afghanistan--Politics and government--1989-2001.
- Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Understand the complexities of the most lethal insurgent group of America's longest war-the Taliban.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Raymond Taras
- Preface
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Afghanistan's landscape, people, and islamism
- Enter the Taliban
- The taliban in power
- The Taliban in defeat
- The Taliban recover in Pakistan
- The Taliban improve their tactics
- Taliban Inc.
- Affiliated insurgent groups and foreign sources of aid
- The counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
- Afterword: dystopia
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216022312
- 9798216152521
- 9780313398971
- 0313398976
- OCLC:
- 1413730262
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