Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way by Bird, Tim
Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way by Bird, Tim

Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the intervention in Afghanistan, a major assessment of strategy...
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Author: Tim Bird
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Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way by Bird, Tim

Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way

$132.13
Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way by Bird, Tim

Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way

$132.13
Author: Tim Bird
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the intervention in Afghanistan, a major assessment of strategy in this most unstable of nations

In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more democratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved. However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing years has proven much more difficult. Despite billions of dollars in aid and military expenditure, Afghanistan remains a nation riddled with warlords, the world's major heroin producer, and the site of a seemingly endless conflict between Islamist militants and NATO forces.

In this timely and important book, Tim Bird and Alex Marshall offer a panoramic view of international involvement in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2011. Tackling the subject matter as a whole, Bird and Marshall weave together analysis of military strategy, regional context, aid policy, the Afghan government, and the many disagreements between and within the Western powers involved in the intervention. Given the complicating factors of the heroin trade, unwelcoming terrain, and precarious relations with Pakistan, the authors acknowledge the ways in which Afghanistan has presented unique challenges for its foreign invaders. Ultimately, however, they argue that the international community has failed in its self-imposed effort to solve Afghanistan's problems and that there are broader lessons to be learned from their struggle, particularly in terms of counterinsurgency and the ever-complicated work of "nation-building." The overarching feature of the intervention, they argue, has been an absence of strategic clarity and coherence.



Author: Tim Bird, Alex Marshall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 06/28/2011
Pages: 303
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780300154573


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/25/2011
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2011

About the Author
Tim Bird is a lecturer at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and the Defence Studies Department, King's College, London. He lives in southern England. Alex Marshall is Lecturer in History in the War Studies Department of the University of Glasgow. He lives in Glasgow.


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