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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: military history of Afghanistan
    sub title: from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror
  name:
    name part: Jalali, Ali Ahmad
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ksu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 617 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The first comprehensive history of the last two-plus centuries of warfare and international conflict in land-locked Afghanistan, from the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 1800s through the region's early 20th-century struggles to modernize, its last monarchy (1933-1973), the Soviet Union's so-called "Vietnam War" in the 1980s and America's "War on Terror," which began in 2001 and continues into the present. By an insider native Afghan author whose careers have encompassed military, government and academic service.
  table of contents: A distinct geography and a turbulent history -- Highlights of the past, ancient era to 1800 -- The great game and the British invasion of Afghanistan, 1809-1839 -- The first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842 -- Geopolitical changes in Central Asia leading to the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1878 -- The second phase of the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1879-1881 -- A period of uneasy peace and the third Anglo-Afghan war, 1880-1919 -- Afghanistan under King Amanullah and the civil war, 1919-1929 -- The Cold War and the Soviet invasion, 1929-1979 -- Soviet occupation and the war of resistance, 1979-1989 -- The civil war and the rise of the Taliban, 1989-2001 -- U.S. invasion, the fall of the Taliban and the Bonn process, 2001-2005.
  note: Ali Ahmad Jalali.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-af---
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: History, Military
  subject:
    geographic: Afghanistan
    topic: Strategic aspects
  classification: DS356 .J35 2017
  classification: 355.009581
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Modern war studies
  identifier: 9780700624072
  identifier: 0700624074
  identifier: 9780700624089
  identifier: 2016055770
  record info:
    record content source: DGU/DLC
    record creation date: 161209
    record change date: 20170926115116.0
    record identifier: in00003861543