The Taliban At War

Download or read book The Taliban at War written by Antonio Giustozzi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction --The collapse of the Emirate and the early regrouping, 2002-4 --The apogeum of the Quetta Shura, 2005-9 --The emergence of alternative centres of power to Quetta --The crisis of the Quetta Shura 2009-13 --The Taliban's tactical adaptation --Organisational adaptation --The troubled comeback of the Quetta Shura 2014 --Conclusion.The impossible centralisation of an anti-centralist movement --Epilogue.