This book revisits post-Cold War Disarmament Disintegration and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in...

In Empires of Mud, Giustozzi analyses the dynamics of warlordism in Afghanistan. He approaches th...

This book revisits post-Cold War Disarmament Disintegration and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in...

Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and ec...

Analyzes how Islamic State hopes to establish a new bulwark in Central Asia and Pakistan, supplan...

Provides a new approach to thinking about security forces and their relationship to state buildin...

In March 2006, both Afghan and American officials were still claiming, just before a series of pa...

A rare in-depth study of a police force in a developing country which is also undergoing a bitter...

How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement¿s extraor...

Building a fully unified Afghan Army dominated neither by Pashtuns nor by Tajiks has eluded the a...

In March 2006, both Afghan and American officials were still claiming, just before a series of pa...

Comprehensive expose on the New Taliban by practitioners with personal experience.