Afganistan

Hjemkomst tar leseren med til fronten i Afghanistan og Irak. Til historier om brutalitet og frykt, håp og hjelpesløshet, de små og store valg i kampen for å overleve i felten og …

“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremonyIn the fall of 2009, Taliban …

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South …

Monsunregnet i august 2010 utløste den verste flommen i Pakistans historie og Taliban vant enda større støtte. Før flommen skildrer en reise som går gjennom noen av de mest …

What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this question by focusing on the …

"e;An excellent resource for college and university collections."e; -BooklistThis important reference work is essential reading for students attempting to understand the …

We arent home yet, Major Paul Darling reminds his team at the end of a sixteen-hour day. Two more miles and we are done. We have pissed off a lot of Taliban today, and they are …

Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and …

Now in its tenth year, the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan continues with no foreseeable end in sight. Ending Obama's War is intended to help and hold President Obama to …

Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the …