Books by Ahmed Rashid
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review 1: Read this shortly after reading Rashid's earlier Descent Into Chaos, which I thought was a much more thoughtful and illuminating book. Pakistan on the Brink to me tended to just re-hash the same arguments that were made in the earlier book , just updated to reflect the last four ...
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review 1: One of the best accounts of the war in Afghanistan. Totally engaging from cover to cover. Rashid was cognizant of the total picture and had been involved in the conflict from the very outset. He carefully and objectively examines the intricate complexities of an endless conflict...
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review 1: Good book. But watch his interviews and talks, and they are full of contradictory statements. On the one hand, he says the militants are too powerful to be controlled by anyone in Pakistan. On the other, he says it is unbelievable that 700,000-strong army is unable to contain and...