Unwinnable
Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Theo Farrell
ISBN: | 9781784701321 |
Publisher: | Vintage |
Published: | 15 September, 2018 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Penguin AU |
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Unwinnable
Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Theo Farrell
A Sunday Times Book of the YearIt could have been a very different story.British and US forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda and stop it from launching further terrorist attacks against the West. Instead, in the years that followed, the British paid a heavy price for their presence in Helmand province; and when Western troops departed from Afghanistan in 2014, they had failed to stop a Taliban resurgence. Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports and government documents, as well as hundreds of interviews, Farrell demonstrates conclusively that the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict in the country, and to tackle Afghan government corruption, meant that the war was unwinnable.
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