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Much of the description of the contemporary period is based on the authors own experience of events. Browse the independent s complete collection of articles and commentary on afghan war. Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country in central asia and middle east. It touches on just about every aspect of the war, from the legal issues surrounding the original coalition intervention to the vexed problem of the status of combatants. Khaled hosseini goodreads author shelved 9 times as afghanistan war avg rating 4. The war in afghanistan, code named operation enduring freedom 200114 and operation freedoms sentinel 2015present, followed the united states invasion of afghanistan of 7 october 2001, when the united states of america and its allies successfully drove the taliban from power in order to deny alqaeda a safe base of operations in afghanistan. This study explores the nature of the insurgency in afghanistan, the. Sometimes the hardest part of going to war is coming home by. He was on the ground throughout wwii in the european theater.
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