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The opening frames Afghanistan’s countryside and local life, contrasting civilian experience with U.S. patrols, raids, and casualties. Subsequent sections outline major political regimes and key offensives, culminating in efforts at peace and retrospective interpretation of identity, intervention, and the war’s end.","The American War in Afghanistan  \nThe American War in Afghanistan  \nA His tor  y   \nCARTER MALKASIAN  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthersthe University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries.  \nPublished in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America.  \n© Oxford University Press 2021  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted bylaw, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address  \nabove.  \nYou must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this  \nsame condition on any acquirer.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Malkasian, Carter,  \n1975– author.  \nTitle: The American war in Afghanistan: A History / Carter Malkasian.  \nDescription: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,[2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |  \nIdentifiers: LCCN 2020056939 (print) | LCCN 2020056940 (ebook) | ISBN 9780197550779 (hardback) | ISBN 9780197550793 (epub) | ISBN  \n9780197550809  \nSubjects: LCSH: Afghan War, 2001—United States. | Afghan War, 2001– Classification: LCC DS371.412 .M327 2021 (print) | LCC DS371.412 (ebook) |  \nDDC 958. 104/7373—dc23  \nLC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056939](https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056939)[ ](https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056939)LC ebook record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056940](https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056940)  \nDOI: 10. 1093/oso/9780197550779 .001.0001  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nList of Maps  \nList of Figures  \n1. Thinking about America’s War in Afghanistan  \n2. The Country and Peoples of Afghanistan  \n3. The Taliban Emirate  \n4. The United States Enters Afghanistan  \n5. The Karzai Regime  \n6. Disorder in Kandahar  \n7. The 2006 Taliban Offensive  \n8. Taliban Rule, 2007–2010  \n9. War in the East  \n10. Taliban Advances  \n11. The Obama Administration and the Decision to Surge  \n12. The Surge in Helmand  \n13. The Surge in Kandahar  \n14. End of the Surge  \n15. Ghazni and the Andar Awakening  \n16. Intervention and Identity  \n17. The 2014 Elections  \n18. The Taliban Offensives of 2015 and 2016  \n19. The Trump Administration  \n20. Peace Talks  \n21. Looking Back  \nNotes  \nGlossary and Abbreviations Bibliography  \nIndex  \nLIST OF MAPS  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \nMap  \n0a.p  \n1a.p  \n2a.p  \n3a.p  \n4a.p  \n5a.p  \n6a.p  \n7a.p  \n8a.p  \n9a.p  \n20.  \n1.  \n2.  \n3.  \n4.  \n5.  \n6.  \n7.  \n8.  \n9.  \nAfghanistan  \nTribes and ethnic groups of Afghanistan Pakistan and the Afghan border Kandahar  \nUS invasion of Afghanistan Tribes of Kandahar Helmand  \nSangin Bazaar and district center  \nOperation Medusa Eastern Afghanistan Kunar and Nuristan Korengal Valley Taliban territory, 2009  \nMarjah  \nArghandab, Zharey, and Panjwai Taliban territory, 2012  \nGhazni Sangin Kunduz  \nTaliban offensives in central Helmand  \nFigure i.gure 2.  \nLIST OF FIGURES  \nAttacks in Arghandab, 2009–2012  \nTaliban control versus government control, 2007– 2013  \nThinking about America’s War in Afghanistan  \nThe heart of Afghanistan was the countryside, the atraf. There in small villages of mud-walled homes, surrounded by fields of wheat, corn, or poppy, most Afghans lived. Bearded men with worn hands worked the fields. Barefoot boys and girls played on dirt paths. Women toiled unseen within the walls, bounded in shroud. Every village had a simple, singleroom mosque where men gathered to pray. 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