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Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander ...
For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops...
Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander ...
An acclaimed historian presents the only complete military history of Afghanistan--from Alexander the Great's conquest of Afghanistan on his way from Persia to India to the Russian invasion and their subsequent defeat in the 1980s to current engagements with military forces in...
Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander ...
Following the events of September 11, 2001, the world was riveted as American military power contested the legendary warrior culture of Afghanistan. By spring 2002, America began to draw down its forces, its mission accomplished: The Afghan Taliban regime has been overthrown...
Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander ...
Examines the entire extraordinary military history of Afghanistan -- a history of defying foreign powers for some 2,500 years, beginning with the Persian Empire and Alexander the Great. Later, invading armies from India, Arabia, and the steppes all attempted to control the "crossroads...
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