The Valley's Edge: A Year With the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban
ISBN: 9781597976947 | 1597976946
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Potomac Books Inc
Pub. Date: 11/30/2011
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In this gripping, first-hand account, Dan Green tells the story of U.S. efforts to oust the Taliban insurgency from the desolate southern Afghan province of Uruzgan. Nestled between the Hindu Kush Mountains and the sprawling wasteland of the Margow and Khash Deserts, Uruzgan is a microcosm of U.S. efforts to prevent Afghanistan from falling to the Taliban insurgency and Islamic radicalism. Green, who served in Uruzgan in 2005'¬ ;2006 as a U.S. Department of State political adviser to a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), reveals how unrealist... MORE
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Uruzgan Province Time Line | p. xxi |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xxiii |
| Welcome to the U.S. Government | p. 1 |
| Afghanistan | p. 11 |
| Uruzgan: The Heart of Asia | p. 21 |
| A Provincial Affair {Tarin KowtùSpring 2005) | p. 39 |
| A Visit to the Green Zone {ChoraùSpring 2005) | p. 67 |
| The New Regime (Tarin Ko... MORE | p. 79 |
| Journey to Chenartu (ChoraùSummer 2005) | p. 89 |
| The Thin Black Line (Tarin KowtùSummer 2005) | p. 95 |
| Bringing Democracy to the Pashtuns (Tarin KowtùFall 2005) | p. 115 |
| Uruzgan's Bloody Past (Tarin KowtùFall 2005) | p. 127 |
| The War Returns (Tarin KowtùSummer 2006) | p. 147 |
| The Good Samaritan (ChoraùSummer 2006) | p. 165 |
| The Dutch Take Over (Tarin KowtùSummer 2006) | p. 177 |
| Interregnum (2006-2008) | p. 183 |
| Afghanistan (2009-2011) | p. 189 |
| Epilogue | p. 213 |
| Afterword | p. 217 |
| Tarin Kowt: Some Ideas on Leadership Change in Uruzgan Province | p. 221 |
| Counterinsurgency in Uruzgan Province: The Political Dimension | p. 227 |
| Notes | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 37 |
| About the Author | p. 245 |
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