AFGHANISTAN
June 2014
A truly splendid work of erudition, storytelling and humanity
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June 2013
Two new histories of separate conflicts in Afghanistan show that both the Victorians and a young Churchill struggled at the North-Western Frontier
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March 2013
The US army's "catch and release programme" in Afghanistan puts allied troops in grave danger and is destabalising in the long term.
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May 2011
The West has turned to former Afghani drug traffickers to hunt insurgents. But these "covert armies" are producing unpredictable warlords as powerful as the ones they are tracking down.
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