The Taliban: Afghanistan's most lethal insurgents

Foreword / by Raymond Taras

Preface

Introduction

Abbreviations

Afghanistan's landscape, people, and islamism

Enter the Taliban

The taliban in power

The Taliban in defeat

The Taliban recover in Pakistan

The Taliban improve theirtactics

Taliban Inc.

Affiliated insurgent groups and foreign sources of aid

The counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

Afterword: dystopia

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index.