TY - BOOK AU - Giustozzi,Antonio TI - Decoding the new Taliban: insights from the Afghan field SN - 9780231701129 AV - DS371.4 .D43 2009 U1 - 958.104/7 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Taliban KW - Insurgency KW - Afghanistan KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Politics and government KW - 2001- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Taliban and the opium trade / Gretchen S. Peters -- Reading the Taliban / Joanna Nathan -- The resurgence of the Taliban in Kabul: Logar and Wardak / Mohammad Osman Tariq Elias -- Loya Paktia's insurgency / Thomas Ruttig and Sébastien Trives -- The return of the Taliban in Andar district: Ghazni / Christoph Reuter and Borhan Younus -- The Taliban in Helmand: an oral history / Tom Coghlan -- Unruly commanders and violent power struggles: Taliban networks in Uruzgan / Martine van Bijlert -- Taliban in Zabul: a witness' account / Abdul Awwal Zabulwal -- What Kandahar's Taliban say / Graeme Smith -- The Taliban's marches: Herat, Farah, Baghdis and Ghor / Antonio Giustozzi -- Taliban and counter-insurgency in Kunar / David Kilcullen -- Northern exposure for the Taliban / Sippi Azerbaijani Moghaddam -- The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan / Claudio Franco ER -