Brian Glyn Williams
Autor von Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings
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Brian Glyn Williams is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He was employed by the CIA to track suicide bombers in Afghanistan in 2007. He is author of several books on warfare and terrorism, including Afghanistan Declassified, also available from the mehr anzeigen University of Pennsylvania Press, and The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led U.S. Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime. weniger anzeigen
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Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings (2015) 27 Exemplare
Counter Jihad: America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria (Haney Foundation Series) (2016) 18 Exemplare
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Much has been written about Afghanistan's most prominent actors: Hamid Karzai, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, etc. In this book, the author paints a portrait of one of the lesser known, but highly influential, of Afghan warlords: the Uzbek Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Currently deployed. Will review when I get back!
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.I started this book knowing very little about Chechnya. The author does an excellent job of explaining its history, and how the people came to be in conflict with Russia. It is written in a way that makes it easy to follow, even for those like me who are not experts.
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I enjoyed this read. It was very insightful on both Afghanistan and Iraq, and written in a helpful chronological order. I did not like how politically focused it was and how much it needlessly addressed conspiracy theories. It also had numerous grammatical and sentence structure errors. I would recommend this book to friends who want to read for understanding on these two wars, but I think the War College could probably find a better book to support the requirements of the syllabus.… (mehr)