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The Last Warlord - The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime (Hardcover)
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The Last Warlord - The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime (Hardcover)
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The Last Warlord tells the spellbinding story of the legendary
Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, a larger-than-life figure who
guided US Special Forces to victory over the Taliban after 9/11.
Having gained unprecedented access to General Dostum and his family
and subcommanders, as well as local chieftains, mullahs, elders,
Taliban prisoners, and women's rights activists, scholar Brian Glyn
Williams paints a fascinating portrait of this Northern Alliance
Uzbek commander who has been shrouded in mystery and contradicting
hearsay. In contrast to sensational media accounts that have
mythologised the "bear of a man with a gruff laugh" who "some
Uzbeks swear, has on occasion frightened people to death", Williams
carefully chronicles Dostum's rise from peasant villager to Uzbek
leader and skilled strategist who has fought a long and bitter war
against the Taliban and Al Qaeda fanatics that have sought to
repress his people. Also revealed is Dostum's surprising history as
a defender of women's rights and religious moderation. In riveting
detail The Last Warlord spotlights the crucial Afghan contribution
to Operation Enduring Freedom: how the CIA contacted the mysterious
warrior Dostum to help US Special Forces wage a covert war in the
mountains of Afghanistan, how respect and even friendship quickly
grew between the Afghan and American fighting men, and how Dostum
led his nomadic people charging into war the same way his ancestors
had -- on horseback. The result was one of the most decisive
campaigns in the entire war on terror. The Last Warlord shows that,
far from serving as an exotic backdrop for American heroics, it was
these horse-mounted descendents of the Mongol warrior Genghis Khan
that allowed the American military to overthrow the Taliban regime
in a matter of weeks. With the United States drawing down troops in
2014 and Dostum poised to re-enter the world stage to fight a
resurgent Taliban, "The Last Warlord" is vital to understanding
Afghanistan's warlord culture and how it factors into Afghanistan's
past and future.
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