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The Army of Afghanistan - A Political History of a Fragile Institution (Hardcover)
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The Army of Afghanistan - A Political History of a Fragile Institution (Hardcover)
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This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan
Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its
analysis of this vitally important institution. Giustozzi locates
the Army's development within the wider context of state- building
in Afghanistan. His volume includes a brief survey of the period to
1953, but focuses mainly on subsequent developments, over the last
four decades, as the officer corps began to be politicised and
later factionalised, especially during the Russian-backed regime of
the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA),
which ruled the country from 1978 to 1992. Despite the stress on
the politics of praetorianism, the volume describes the Afghan
Army's performance on the battlefield in detail, highlighting the
potential contradiction between military effectiveness and
political loyalty to the ruling elite. The volume covers
developments to the end of 2013 and is the result of extensive
interviews conducted with both Afghan Army officers and their
advisers and mentors.
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