By Richard Falk,Deepak Tripathi

starting with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and carrying on with via Gen. David Petraeus’s 2010 appointment changing Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, this publication is an within account of 1 of the main vicious conflicts fought among the 2 chilly battle superpowers: the Soviet struggle in Afghanistan (1979–89). interpreting the behind-the-scenes judgements made in Moscow, Washington, and Kabul, former BBC correspondent Deepak Tripathi exhibits how that clash reworked Afghanistan right into a sanctuary for terrorism.

Explaining how Afghanistan descended right into a civil struggle from which the Taliban emerged, Tripathi explores the ways that the rustic eventually grew to become a ugly replicate snapshot of the anticommunist alliance of U.S. forces and radical Islamists within the chilly War’s ultimate part. Calling for a departure from the present pursuit of army strong-arm strategies, he advocates an method that's founded on improvement, inner reconciliation, and societal reconstruction in Afghanistan.

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