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When Taliban forces took Kabul on 15 August 2021, it marked the end of the Western intervention that had begun nearly twenty years earlier with the US-led invasion. The fall of Afghanistan triggered a seismic shock in the West, where US President Joe Biden announced an end to America's involvement in conflicts overseas. In Afghanistan itself it produced terror for the future for those who had worked with and grown up under the coalition-supported administration. Now, with the country spiralling into economic collapse and famine, Losing Afghanistan is a plea for us to keep our gaze on the plight of the people of Afghanistan and to understand how action and inaction in the West shaped the fate of the nation. Why was Afghanistan lost? Can it be regained? And what happens next? Edited by international development expert Brian Brivati, this collection of twenty-one essays by analysts, politicians, soldiers, commentators and practitioners - interspersed with powerful eyewitness testimony from Afghan voices - explains what happened in Afghanistan and why, and what the future holds both for its people and for liberal intervention.

Explores how American unilateralism has impacted its role as a world power and how other countries view the U.S., focusing on how political and military decisions made after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have alienated the country's closest allies.

A critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy that exposes the folly of an agenda of preventive war, placing it in the context of two hundred years of American strategic doctrine.

An issue-based, non-partisan guide to modern American politics, providing background on topics of interest to voters and looking at all sides of the debate surrounding each, including the economy, foreign policy, the military, health care, energy, the environment, civil liberties, culture wars, socioeconomic policy, homeland security, education, and trade.

Traces the history of the Taliban in Afghanistan, explaining how the religious group rose to power, controlled the people, government, and economy of the country, aided terrorists, and fought American, British, and Soviet forces at various times and discussing how the Taliban controls what women, children, and men wear, think, and do.

Inspired by a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane, Parveen Shams travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to help with his charitable foundation. But when she sees that his book is littered with lies, Parveen must decide where her loyalties lie--with the soldiers or the villagers.

Contains quotations from President Barack Obama in which he shares his views on ninety-five topics, including abortion, AIDS, the current state of politics, gay marriage, global warming, immigration policy, nuclear weapons, the War on Terror, and other topics.

"The War in Afghanistan recounts the United States' involvement in the war against terrorism, including incidents leading up to the war, and key events and people"--Back cover.

A book for high school students about the reality of daily life under control of the Taliban.

Provides a look into the lives of the Afghan people, particularly the women and children, in a photo essay format.