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Prologue: A clockwork Afghanistan
Pt. I: Afghanistan from antiquity to the 1960s. Problems with the historical record ; The British are coming ; The Great Game ; Twentieth-century Afghanistan ; A background to Cold War policy
Pt. II: Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001. Team-B ; The 1979 winter nightmare ; Summer 1980 ; The Reagan era ; Moscow's new regime ; A new decade : a new and more dangerous Afghanistan ; 1995-2001 : the Taliban
Pt. III: Afghanistan from 2001 to 2008. Countdown to 9/11 ; Kabul, October 7,2001 ; Afghanistan redux ; Afghanistan and the region ; Geopolitical realities vs. Osama bin Laden, superstar ; What can President Barack Obama do?
Epilogue: The twenty-first chapter.
Pt. I: Afghanistan from antiquity to the 1960s. Problems with the historical record ; The British are coming ; The Great Game ; Twentieth-century Afghanistan ; A background to Cold War policy
Pt. II: Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001. Team-B ; The 1979 winter nightmare ; Summer 1980 ; The Reagan era ; Moscow's new regime ; A new decade : a new and more dangerous Afghanistan ; 1995-2001 : the Taliban
Pt. III: Afghanistan from 2001 to 2008. Countdown to 9/11 ; Kabul, October 7,2001 ; Afghanistan redux ; Afghanistan and the region ; Geopolitical realities vs. Osama bin Laden, superstar ; What can President Barack Obama do?
Epilogue: The twenty-first chapter.