• ISBN13: 9788175966208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: HistoryPolitics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Foundation Books
• Publication Date: July 15, 2008
• Pages: 342
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

While popular accounts of warfare, particularly of nontraditional conflicts such as guerrilla wars and insurgencies, favor the role of leaders or ideology, social- scientific analyses of these wars focus on aggregate categories such as ethnic groups, religious affiliations, socioeconomic classes, or civilizations. Challenging these constructions, Abdulkader H. Sinno closely examines the fortunes of the various factions in Afghanistan, including the mujahideen and the Taliban, that have been fighting each other and foreign armies since the 1979 Soviet invasion. Focusing on the organization of the combatants, Sinno offers a new understanding of the course and outcome of such conflicts.