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This book is a comprehensive history of the war, arguing that one of the primary reasons for the Taliban's success was their deep connection to the religious and social identity of Afghanistan, [7] and that the inability of the American-supported Afghan government to attract popular support and retain control of the country [8] was due to Afghans’ viewing the American military as a foreign ...
The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan is a 2014 book by British writer Jack Fairweather, a former Washington Post war correspondent, about the recent War in Afghanistan.
In the ABC News / Washington Post poll conducted November 12–15, 2009, the political divide in the U.S. over the war continued: the majority 66% of Democrats say the war is not worth fighting, with nearly half of Democrats, 48%, feeling strongly that the war is not worth fighting, while, on the other hand, the majority 60% of Republicans say ...
It has now been more than a year since the NRF held territory in Afghanistan, but Massoud says his fighters are bringing the fight to the Taliban in 20 of the country’s 34 provinces ...
The decade-long war in Afghanistan has also been increasingly compared to the Vietnam War, and increasingly characterized as a quagmire. [51] [135] [136] In the spring of 2010, the war in Afghanistan surpassed the length of official United States participation in the Vietnam War, 8 years and 5 months, as the longest-running U.S. war ever.
Every American soldier has left Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean Afghanistan has left them. Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen’s heartfelt documentary gives new meaning to the term “forever war ...
Shoigu, a former defence minister, also said the U.S. should play a leading role in rebuilding Afghanistan in view of its many years of military involvement in the country. Taliban leaders asked ...
Rogers, Paul - A War on Terror: Afghanistan and After. [10] Rothstein, Hy S. – Afghanistan and the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare. [28] Schurmann, H. F. - The Mongols of Afghanistan, an Ethnography of the Moghols and Related Peoples of Afghanistan. [29] Shahrani, Nazif and Charlie Nairn – The Kirghiz of Afghanistan: TV Film. [30]