The Afghan Way of War Culture and Pragmatism: A Critical History

摘要

Amidst a wave of books dedicated to Afghanistan, Johnson's volume is one of the few which deal with war in Afghanistan from an analytical perspective, even if the largest portion of the book is dedicated to narratives of wars involving the Afghan peoples from the First Anglo-Afghan War onwards. The Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Tirah campaign of 1897-98, the Third Anglo- Afghan War, the Waziristan campaign of 1936-47, the Soviet war, the civil wars of the 1990s and the Taliban insurgency of 2002-11 are all dedicated some space.