Afghanistan
How often have we heard that Afghanistan is the unwinnable war but few of us might be aware that this comes from the harsh experience of history as much as present hopeless warfare. Historian, William Dalrymple, in his sparkling new history of the First Anglo-Afghan War, draws striking parallels between that 19th-century conflict and NATO’s current Afghan impasse. “In both cases,” he writes, “the invaders thought they could walk in, perform regime change, and be out in a couple of years. In both cases they were unable to prevent themselves getting sucked into a much wider conflict.” To tease out ...
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