Kaushik Roy takes a long view of the processes that have shaped the geo¬politics of Afghanistan, unlike most of its recently published military histories. In his words, this publication consists of a political and military narrative of Afghanistan’s conventional and unconven¬tional warfare spanning five centuries. In so doing, he explores whether some of the stan¬dard explanations of what went wrong in Afghanistan offer credible accounts for its present predicament.
July 2015, volume 39, No 7