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Free Download The Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979-1989 (Asia@War Book 50)
by Ilya Milyukov
English | March 31, 2024 | ISBN: 1804516228 | 188 pages | EPUB | 82 Mb

Free Download Rajen Harshé, Dhananjay Tripathi, "Afghanistan Post-2014: Power configurations and evolving trajectories"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138956902, 0815373082 | EPUB | pages: 268 | 0.6 mb
Owing to its geo-strategic location and mineral wealth, Afghanistan has acquired significance in the inter-state politics of Asia as well as world politics during the past decades. This book outlines Afghanistan’s efforts to build a stable and peaceful democratic polity, with external military support from the United States and its NATO allies. It also analyses the nation’s development initiatives with major powers such as India, the United States, Russia and Germany. The volume:

Free Download Eric Micheletti – Special Forces: War On Terrorism in Afghanistan 2001-2003
Histoire & Collections | 2003 | ISBN: 2913903908 | English | 184 pages | PDF | 159.11 MB
Eric Micheletti, well known editor of Raids Magazine in France is an internationally respected special Forces expert. In this spectacular new book he gives a day by day objective and highly documented explanation of the use of American, British, French and Australian speciual forces in the current campaign in Afghanistan.

Free Download Ivan Safranchuk, "Afghanistan and Its Central Asian Neighbors: Toward Dividing Insecurity "
English | ISBN: 1442280174 | 2017 | 38 pages | EPUB | 897 KB
The general trend in Afghanistan is clear-cut: the overall security situation has consistently deteriorated since 2009, worsening dramatically since 2014. However, in the provinces of Afghanistan adjacent to Central Asia, the security situation has deteriorated even further than in Afghanistan as a whole. This report considers the range of options available to the Central Asian neighbors of Afghanistan (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) in responding to this growing threat, both unilaterally and in their bilateral engagement with actors in Afghanistan. Furthermore, it considers how decision making processes in Central Asia will be affected by future developments in Afghanistan by assessing options and likely outcomes under a set of security scenarios in Afghanistan itself.

Free Download Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan By Dipali Mukhopadhyay
2014 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 1107023920 | PDF | 3 MB
Warlords have come to represent enemies of peace, security, and "good governance" in the collective intellectual imagination. In this book Dipali Mukhopadhyay asserts that, in fact, not all warlords are created equal. Under certain conditions, some of these much-maligned actors are both able and willing to become effective governors on behalf of the state. This provocative argument is based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, where Mukhopadhyay examined warlord-governors who have served as valuable exponents of the Karzai regime in its struggle to assert control over key segments of the countryside. She explores the complex ecosystems that came to constitute provincial political life after 2001 and goes on to expose the rise of "strongman" governance in two important Afghan provinces. While this brand of governance falls far short of international expectations, its emergence reflects the reassertion of the Afghan state in material and symbolic terms that deserve our attention. This book pushes past canonical views of warlordism and state building to consider the logic of the weak state as it has arisen in challenging, conflict-ridden societies like Afghanistan.

Free Download Colin P. Clarke, "From Stalemate to Settlement: Lessons for Afghanistan from Historical Insurgencies That Have Been Resolved Through Negot"
English | ISBN: 083308237X | 2014 | 92 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A comprehensive review of historical insurgencies that ended in settlement after a military stalemate shows that these negotiations followed a similar path that can be generalized into a "master narrative" of seven steps executed in a common sequence. Such a narrative could help guide and assess the progress of a similar approach to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw.

Free Download ANZAC Cove to Afghanistan: The History of the 3rd Brigade
by Glenn Wahlert
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1925275558 | 396 Pages | True ePUB | 50 MB

Free Download Massive Plunder of Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth : The US and NATO Burglars, Taliban, Islamic State of Khorasan, and Jihadist Groups of Central Asia, Go-fifty-fifty
by Musa Khan Jalalzai
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9389620104 | 278 Pages | True ePUB | 0.53 MB

Free Download Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game
by Ali Ahmad Jalali
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0700632638 | 384 Pages | True ePUB | 5.27 MB

Free Download A Military History of Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror (Modern War Studies) by Ali Ahmad Jalali
English | March 17, 2017 | ISBN: 0700624074 | 656 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
The history of Afghanistan is largely military history. From the Persians and Greeks of antiquity to the British, Soviet, and American powers in modern times, outsiders have led military conquests into the mountains and plains of Afghanistan, leaving their indelible marks on this ancient land at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. In this book Ali Ahmad Jalali, a former interior minister of Afghanistan, taps a deep understanding of his country’s distant and recent past to explore Afghanistan’s military history during the last two hundred years.