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:Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...#ixzz0WgkGhQdSIt 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.
The book's website is:http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-2...he-new-taliban
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