TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ansary,Mir Tamim
TI  - Games without rules : : the often interrupted history of Afghanistan / 
SN  - 9781610390941
AV  - DS361. A573 2012
PY  - 2012///.
CY  - New York : 
PB  - PublicAffairs, 
KW  - Military occupation
KW  -  History
KW  - British
KW  -  Afghanistan
KW  - Russians
KW  - Americans
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  -  History, Military
KW  -  Strategic aspects
KW  -  Politics and government
N1  - “Includes bibliography”—(pages 371-378).; Contents: Afghanistan becomes a country. Founding father ; Ahmad Shah's Afghanistan ; Farangis on the horizon ; Between the lion and the bear ; Auckland's folly ; The second coming of Dost Mohammed ; Eight or ten good years ; Interrupted again—One country, two worlds. A time of blood and iron ; Starting fresh ; King of the radicals ; King's law versus God's law ; Things fall apart—Kabul rules. After the storm ; Nonaligned nation ; Development, no brakes ; The democracy era ; Rise of the left ; Change by decree ; The Soviet occupation—Old Afghanistan erupts. The Mujahideen ; Cold war endgame ; From horror to chaos ; Out of the camps ; Taliban versus Mujahideen ; Al Qaeda ; America enters the picture—The struggle resumes. The Bonn project ; Kabul spring ; The persistence of trouble ; Drugs and corruption ; Talibanism ; The tipping point ; Obama's surges ; All that glitters -- Postscript
ER  -