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"As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top Taliban leaders were in fact ready to surrender within months of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, renouncing all political activity and submitting to the new government. Effectively, the Taliban ceased to exist--yet the American forces were not ready to accept such a turnaround. Driven by false intelligence from corrupt warlords and by a misguided conviction that Taliban members could never change sides, the U.S. instead continued to press the conflict, resurrecting the insurgency that persists to this day. Gopal's dramatic narrative, full of vivid personal detail, follows three Afghans through years of U.S. missteps: a Taliban commander, a U.S.-backed warlord, and a housewife trapped in the middle of the fighting."--
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Counterinsurgency, Afghani Personal narratives, Taliban, Internal security, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General, Peace-building, Afghan War, 2001-, Military policy, Afghan war, 2001-, Insurgency, Conflict management, United states, military policy, Afghanistan, politics and government, Afghan War, 2001, Afghan Personal narratives, politics, Personal narratives, narrative nonfiction, Political science, political freedomPlaces
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes (American Empire P
Mar 01, 2021, Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
May 05, 2015, Picador USA, Picador
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No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes
2014-04, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
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No good men among the living: America, the Taliban, and the war through Afghan eyes
2014, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
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