"Afghanistan History." . . "Afghanistan--History" . "Afghanistan" . . "Afghanistan." . "Besatzung (Militär)" . . "Russians Afghanistan History." . . "Afghanistan Politics and government." . . "Afghanistan Politics and government" . "Americans Afghanistan History." . . . . . "Games without rules : the often interrupted history of Afghanistan" . "Military history" . "Military history"@en . . . . . . . "Games without rules : the often-interrupted history of afghanistan"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Games Without Rules : the often interrupted history of Afghanistan" . "History" . . "History"@en . "Electronic books"@en . . "Five times in the last two centuries. some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim Ansary shows in this illuminating history, every intervention has come to grief for much the same reason: the intervening power has failed to understand that Afghanistan has a story of its own, a story that continues to unfold between--and despite--the interventions. Drawing on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources, Ansary weaves an epic that moves from a universe of village republics--the old Afghanistan--through a tumultuous drama of tribes. factions, and forces, to the current struggle. Ansary paints a richly textured portrait of a nation that began to form around the same time as the United States but is still struggling to coalesce; a nation driven by its high ambitions but undermined by its own demons, while every forty to sixty years a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made.--From publisher description." . "Five times in the last two centuries. some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim Ansary shows in this illuminating history, every intervention has come to grief for much the same reason: the intervening power has failed to understand that Afghanistan has a story of its own, a story that continues to unfold between--and despite--the interventions. Drawing on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources, Ansary weaves an epic that moves from a universe of village republics--the old Afghanistan--through a tumultuous drama of tribes. factions, and forces, to the current struggle. Ansary paints a richly textured portrait of a nation that began to form around the same time as the United States but is still struggling to coalesce; a nation driven by its high ambitions but undermined by its own demons, while every forty to sixty years a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made.--From publisher description."@en . . . . . . . . . . "Games without rules the often interrupted history of Afghanistan"@en . "Games without rules the often interrupted history of Afghanistan" . . . . "Geschichte 1800-2012." . . "History." . . "British Afghanistan History." . . "HISTORY Asia Central Asia." . . "HISTORY Asia General." . . "Afghanistan History, Military." . . "Afghanistan History Military." . "Military occupation History." . . "Afghanistan Strategic aspects." . . . .