The Afghanistan Wars Second Edition

by Maley, William

• ISBN13: 9780230213135
• ISBN10: 0230213138
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

William Maley provides an authoritative account of the waves of conflict which, for nearly a quarter of a century, devastated much of the country. This new edition has been updated throughout in the light of the latest research and features a new final chapter which examines post-Taliban Afghanistan, bringing the story up to the present day.

Author Biography

WILLIAM MALEY is Professor and Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University, Australia.

Table of Contents

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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