The American war in Afghanistan : a history

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The American war in Afghanistan : a history

Carter Malkasian

Oxford University Press, c2021

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Bibliography: p. 529-537

Includes index

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内容説明

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon DL but only after a stay of nearly two decades. In The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian provides the first comprehensive history of the entire conflict. Malkasian is both a leading academic authority on the subject and an experienced practitioner, having spent nearly two years working in the Afghan countryside and going on to serve as the senior advisor to General Joseph Dunford, the US military commander in Afghanistan and later the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Drawing from a deep well of local knowledge, understanding of Pashto, and review of primary source documents, Malkasian moves through the war's multiple phases: the 2001 invasion and after; the light American footprint during the 2003 Iraq invasion; the resurgence of the Taliban in 2006, the Obama-era surge, and the various resets in strategy and force allocations that occurred from 2011 onward, culminating in the 2018-2020 peace talks. Malkasian lived through much of it, and draws from his own experiences to provide a unique vantage point on the war. Today, the Taliban is the most powerful faction, and sees victory as probable. The ultimate outcome after America leaves is inherently unpredictable given the multitude of actors there, but one thing is sure: the war did not go as America had hoped. Although the al-Qa'eda leader Osama bin Laden was killed and no major attack on the American homeland was carried out after 2001, the United States was unable to end the violence or hand off the war to the Afghan authorities, which could not survive without US military backing. The American War in Afghanistan explains why the war had such a disappointing outcome. Wise and all-encompassing, The American War in Afghanistan provides a truly vivid portrait of the conflict in all of its phases that will remain the authoritative account for years to come.

目次

Chapter One: Thinking About America's War in Afghanistan Chapter Two: The Country and Peoples of Afghanistan Chapter Three: The First Taliban Regime Chapter Four: The United States Enters Afghanistan Chapter Five: The Karzai Regime Chapter Six: Disorder in Kandahar Chapter Seven: The Taliban Offensive Chapter Eight: A Second Taliban Regime, 2007-2010 Chapter Nine: The War in the East Chapter Ten: Kandahar City and Lashkar Gah Chapter Eleven: The New Administration and the Surge Chapter Twelve: The Surge in Helmand Chapter Thirteen: The Surge in Kandahar Chapter Fourteen: End of the Surge Chapter Fifteen: Ghazni and the East Chapter Sixteen: The new army and police, insider attacks, and the bilateral security agreement Chapter Seventeen: The 2014 Elections Chapter Eighteen: The Taliban Offensives of 2015 and 2016 Chapter Nineteen: The Trump Administration Chapter Twenty: Peace Talks Chapter Twenty-One: Looking Back on Eighteen Years of War in Afghanistan References Notes Index

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