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    Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Audiobook11 hours

    Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know

    Written by Barnett R. Rubin

    Narrated by David Stifel

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    About this audiobook

    Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world's major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new phase, when the Taliban took power and imposed order based on a harsh, repressive version of Islamic law. Infamously, the sheltered Osama bin Laden, whose attack on 9/11 Towers ushered in the Global War on Terror, drew tens of thousands of American troops to the country, where they remain today.

    In Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®, leading scholar Barnett R. Rubin provides an overview of this complicated nation. After providing a concise history of Afghanistan, he explores the various peoples and cultures of the country and its relations with neighbors like Pakistan and Iran. He also provides an authoritative overview of the conflicts that have plagued the country since the Soviet invasion. Both wide-ranging and pithy, this book explains why Afghanistan matters and what its possible future might look like.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 29, 2020
    ISBN9781705270882
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    • 3/5
      Very incoherent book, just like the country the author was dealing with!!!
    • 4/5
      General analysus of Political, economic and military development in Afganistan dating back to ancient times and becoming more detailed closer te the present. No nonsense. Dispels some myths about Afghanistan