Hat tip to Steve Coll, who has written a short commentary on new writing on the Taliban:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...w-taliban.html I have picked one sentence:
It is an outstanding and important collection—just the sort of locally specific, openly debatable, scholarly analysis about the diverse structures and leaders of the Taliban that will be required more and more if the international community is ever to understand the insurgents and divine how to prevent a second Taliban revolution.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...#ixzz0WgkGhQdS

The book's website is:http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-2...he-new-taliban

davidbfpo

PS Copied to the 'What are you reading' thread.