The New York Review of Books

Afghanistan: The Way to Peace

April 4, 2013

Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror by Barnett R. Rubin

Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion edited by Peter Bergen with Katherine Tiedemann

Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973–2012 by Vahid Brown and Don Rassler

Afghanistan & Money

March 8, 2012

Afghanistan: The Best Way to Peace

February 9, 2012

Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89 by Rodric Braithwaite

A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Artemy M. Kalinovsky

Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan by Edward Girardet

Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths by Jonathan Steele

The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity by Riaz Mohammad Khan

Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan US Department of Defense

Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field edited by Antonio Giustozzi

An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970–2010 by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn

Not Bad, Just Sad

February 18, 1999

Our War Against the Pashtuns

April 3, 2012

The war in Afghanistan has always been an Afghan civil war, as well as a war between the Taliban and Western forces. The fact is that a plurality of Afghans are rural Pashtuns. By tipping the military balance in favor of the non-Pashtun nationalities, the US and NATO intervention has motivated Pashtuns to fight against the western forces. The tragic reality is that the presence and actions of the US forces themselves have contributed to Taliban support. If there was any doubt about that before the burning of the Korans and the massacre by Sergeant Robert Bales in Kandahar, there can be no doubt now.