Book Review: “America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump” by Sharifullah Dorani
Sharifullah Dorani. America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump (I.B. Tauris, 2019) The new book by Dr. Sharifullah Dorani, “America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump” is not just another story of Afghanistan’s troubled past, but rather is a remarkable account of the country’s modern history with details, facts and figures that presents in its entirety the reasons that made Afghanistan, in spite of its ancient and rich civilization, renowned globally for all the wrong reasons. The author does not merely present the story, he relives it and with him, all his readers. Dorani, Afghani himself, infuses the book with his personal interest and emotional connection to his country, explaining vividly why his homeland “has received nothing from the four-decade-long war but an extraordinary amount of suffering” and above all shows that he and his […]
More on War by Martin Van Creveld
“You may not be interested in war, but war may be interested in you.” (p.1) How many of us want to read about war? Does it remind us all of pain, loss, blood and misery? Martin Van Creveld’s newest book, “More on War”, is not a story of these things. He uses examples drawn from military history to explain what war is and add More to what we already know on this difficult subject.