9788187374435 - The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of the Taliban von Happymon, Jacob (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Contents Introduction. I. The rise 1. Who are the Taliban. 2. The rise to prominence. 3. Pakistan's Afghan interventions. 4. Pakistan and Taliban an unholy alliance. 5. Other players. 6. The Bin Laden Taliban connection. 7. Pakistan's interests in Afghanistan. II. The fall 1. Inherent flaw. 2. Useless costly and troublesome. 3. Disappearance and hideout. III. The resurgence 1. Where are they surfacing and gathering. 2. Areas under Taliban control. 3. The new Taliban a much divided force. 4. Resurgence players and strategies. 5. Resurgent Taliban and their strategies. IV. The future 1. What are the chances of success for the Taliban. 2. India and the resurgent Taliban. Conclusions. Select bibliography. Taliban a timeline. Index. The Taliban were gold like figures for a war torn country's war weary people. They promised to rid the country of anarchy lawlessness and disintegration and thus earned the support of Afghans. The Taliban were defeated or so we were told by the Americans when the Frankenstein came back to haunt them. The Taliban were consigned to the dustbin of history or so we thought when Hamid Karzai was anointed as the newest ruler in Kabul. However if lessons of history canons of geo strategy and reports from Afghanistan are anything to go by Taliban were not done away with not by default but by design. The author rejects the widely believed argument that the Taliban movement has been defeated once and for all. The author claims that the endgame in Afghanistan is likely to be an eventual induction of the Taliban elements into the Afghan Government by way of a consensus reached among Pakistan the US and Karzai. However in the course of time such a status quo is unlikely to endure. Pakistan's internal and geo strategic compulsions will prompt it to advocate for more and more space for the Taliban in the Afghan Government. In short this study is an in depth analysis of the raison d'etre of the rise fall and resurgence of the Taliban. 138 pp.