Afghanistan's violent decades : a history, 1978 through 2021 / Stanley B. Sprague.
| Author/creator | Sprague, Stanley B., 1940- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Early Soviet interest and PDPA in power -- First phase : Soviet invasion (Dec. 1979 to March 1980) -- Second phase : sparring; the war heats up (March 1980 to March 1985) -- Third phase : end game (March 1985 to Feb. 1989) -- The fall of Najibullah's communist regime (Feb. 1989 to April 1992) -- The Afghan Civil War -- Taliban's birth, conquests, and rule -- Taliban's attempts to eliminate massoud -- First phase : Al-Qaeda strikes NYC/Taliban routed (Sept. to Dec. 2001) -- Second phase : the quiet period (Dec. 2001 to June 2003) -- Third phase : the Taliban return (June 2003 to Aug. 2003) -- Fourth phase : NATO takes over and expands (Aug. 2003 to Feb. 2006) -- Fifth phase : taliban major offenses in south (Feb. to Dec. 2006) -- Sixth phase : NATO counteroffensives (Dec. 2006 to Aug. 2007) -- Seventh phase : the Americans lose momentum (Aug. 2007 to Feb. 2009) -- Eighth phase : America decides to surge troops (Feb. to Dec. 2009) -- Ninth phase : America uses its surge troops (Dec. 2009 to June 2010) -- Tenth phase : Petraeus takes the offensive (June 2010 to May 2011) -- Eleventh phase : Americans withdraw more troops (June 2011 to April 2014) -- Twelfth phase : troop withdrawals/Taliban successes (April 2014 to Jan. 2017) -- Thirteenth phase : peace deal/Taliban in power (Jan. 2017 to Aug. 2021) -- Epilogue : autopsy of the Afghan-NATO war. |
| Abstract | "This book examines the key political and military events in Afghanistan from 1978 to August 2021. It covers the Afghan-Soviet war and how that war was followed by an Afghan Civil War that made the country receptive to the rise of the Afghan Taliban. It explains how the Taliban secured control of Afghanistan's government, and permitted Osama bin Laden to reside in the country while he secretly planned an attack on the American mainland. It also covers why Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, flew hijacked airliners into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It describes how American and NATO forces responded by invading Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda and to overthrow the Taliban government. The 20-year Afghan-NATO war which followed would lead to American troops suffering 2,488 dead and 20,722 wounded. This book is one of the first to cover this long war written after the war ended in August 2021, giving it a new perspective. It offers an even-handed coverage of the war based on Taliban, American, and British sources"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024037317 |
| ISBN | 9781476691855 |
| ISBN | 1476691851 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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