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Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Note on References | p. xi |
Map | p. xii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Road to War | p. 6 |
The Afghan context | p. 7 |
The Soviet context | p. 16 |
From coup to invasion | p. 22 |
Soviet Strategy, Tactics, and Dilemmas | p. 32 |
The Soviet armed forces | p. 32 |
Soviet strategy | p. 36 |
Soviet tactics | p. 39 |
Soviet dilemmas | p. 45 |
The Development of Afghan Resistance | p. 48 |
Popular mobilization in Afghanistan | p. 49 |
The role of Pakistan | p. 56 |
International support for the Afghan resistance | p. 63 |
The Karmal Period, 1979-1986 | p. 71 |
Patterns of war | p. 72 |
The structure of the regime and the role of the party | p. 76 |
The Afghan secret police | p. 81 |
The USSR and change in the Kabul regime | p. 86 |
The Najibullah-Gorbachev Period, 1986-1989 | p. 90 |
Patterns of war | p. 91 |
Political change in Moscow and Kabul | p. 95 |
The policy of 'national reconciliation' | p. 100 |
The Road to Soviet Withdrawal | p. 105 |
The Soviet decision to withdraw | p. 106 |
The United Nations and the Geneva Accords | p. 111 |
The course of the withdrawal | p. 118 |
Consequences of the Soviet-Afghan War | p. 127 |
Effects of the war on Afghanistan | p. 128 |
Effects of the war on the Soviet Union | p. 132 |
Two lessons of the war | p. 137 |
The Interregnum of Najibullah, 1989-1992 | p. 140 |
Mechanisms of regime maintenance | p. 141 |
Fracturing within the Afghan resistance | p. 145 |
UN attempts to manage transition | p. 150 |
The collapse of the regime | p. 154 |
The Rise and Fall of the Rabbani Government, 1992-1996 | p. 162 |
The failure of elite settlements | p. 163 |
The bombardment of Kabul | p. 168 |
Beyond Kabul | p. 172 |
The reappearance of the UN | p. 174 |
Regime decay | p. 177 |
The Rise and Rule of the Taliban, 1994-2001 | p. 182 |
The origins and spread of the Taliban | p. 183 |
The objectives of the Taliban | p. 194 |
The Taliban and human rights | p. 198 |
The Taliban and the world | p. 202 |
The Fall of the Taliban | p. 210 |
Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban | p. 211 |
The obliteration of the Taliban regime | p. 215 |
The Bonn Conference and its aftermath | p. 224 |
Post-Taliban Afghanistan | p. 230 |
Challenges in post-Taliban Afghanistan | p. 231 |
Politics in post-Taliban Afghanistan | p. 234 |
Reconstruction and development | p. 240 |
Security threats in post-Taliban Afghanistan | p. 245 |
Building security in post-Taliban Afghanistan | p. 250 |
Post-Taliban Afghanistan and the world | p. 255 |
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban threat | p. 259 |
Afghanistan, and Iran | p. 265 |
Afghan futures | p. 269 |
References | p. 275 |
Index | p. 317 |
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