Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival - Amin Saikal, A. G. Ravan Farhadi, Kirill Nourzhanov - Google Books

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Afghanistan's history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime and then the US invasion after the catastrophe of September 11th. Why does Afghanistan remain so vulnerable to domestic…