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Conflict in Afghanistan - Studies in Asymetric Warfare (Hardcover, New)
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Conflict in Afghanistan - Studies in Asymetric Warfare (Hardcover, New)
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In the wake of the attacks of 11 September 2001, and during the
ensuing invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, much has been heard of
the concept of 'asymmetric warfare'. Broadly speaking, this
describes a means of fighting through which a weaker power can
offset or neutralize the strengths of a more powerful opponent by
applying its own strengths to its opponent's weaknesses.
Frequently, it is used to describe situations in which formal state
power is confronted by non-state or guerrilla activity. Afghanistan
features as the focus of this book's investigation since the
country has recently been at the hub of confrontations which have
borne immediately on current international concerns. It has also,
for more than a century and a half, been the arena for a series of
conflicts between imperial powers on the one hand and state and
non-state power structures on the other. Afghans, moreover, have
not changed their spots: they remain basically the same, in terms
of personality and society, as they were when they were first
described by a British envoy, Mountstewart Elphinstone, at the
beginning of the nineteenth century. Since that time, the
confrontations with which Afghanistan was involved have not only
brought repeated misery upon its people, but have had ramifications
of an international character. This book deals with each of the
five conflicts in which Afghanistan has been embroiled during this
time span, namely the First, Second and Third Anglo-Afghan Wars,
the Soviet invasion and the most recent American-led operations.
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