THERE is no shortage of books and literature detailing the failure of the Western forces in defeating the Taliban insurgency that had started to spread by 2003 marking the beginning of the ‘second US-Afghan war’. But a fascinating insider account of the first phase of the US invasion of Afghanistan and the CIA’s covert operation that installed Hamid Karzai in power in Kabul has come out only recently.
Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue
