A startling history of modern Afghanistan: the story of a country caught in a vortex of terror. This paperback edition includes a new 2011 afterword by the author. Pulling these various threads together will be the challenge for the Obama administration, yet it is a challenge that can be met by continuing to foster local involvement and Afghani investment in the region. The task of implementing an effective US policy and cementing Afghani rule is hampered by what Isby sees as separate but overlapping conflicts between terrorism, narcotics, and regional rivalries, each requiring different strategies to resolve. Salam and welcome I created this page to share historical pictures & videos of Afghanistan. Jones harnesses important new historical research, thousands of declassified government documents, and interviews with prominent figures to reveal how the siphoning of resources to Iraq left Afghanistan vulnerable to a 'war of a thousand cuts.' He argues for a radically new approach. After seven years and billions of dollars in aid, efforts at nation-building in Afghanistan has produced only a puppet regime that is dependent on foreign aid for survival and has no control over a corrupt police force nor the increasingly militant criminal organizations and the deepening social and economic crisis. The famous phrase 'Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires' has once again topped the headlines of dozens of newspapers, political cartoons and intellectual writings, and came out of the mouths of commentators on television channels. Afghanistan has been a haunted battlefield for the world’s best and fiercest armies, from Alexander the Great in the third century BC to Americans in the 21st century.
It has again lived up to its name, pounding the worlds leading superpower. It is rife with divisions between ethnic groups that dwarf current schisms in Iraq, and all the groups are lead by warlords who fight over control of the drug trade as much as they do over religion. Afghanistan, we are often told, and quite rightly so, is the graveyard of empires.
The region is still racked with these confrontations along with conflicts between rouge factions from Pakistan, with whom relations are increasingly strained. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world with one of the lowest literacy rates. It is rife with divisions between ethnic groups that dwarf current schisms in Iraq, and all the groups are lead by warlords who fight over control of the drug trade as much as they do over religion. Veteran defense analyst and Afghanistan expert David Isby provides an insightful and meticulously researched look at the current situation in Afghanistan, her history, and what he believes must be done so that the US and NATO coalition can succeed in what has historically been known as "the graveyard of empires." Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world with one of the lowest literacy rates. With Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires: A New History of the Borderland, David Isby provides the reader an extremely thorough look into the central issue of.