Decoding the New Taliban : Insights from the Afghan Field

xiv, 318pp. Occasional maps and charts in text. In black cloth boards with gilt titles on the spine (boards are strong, clean, square and sharp). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (not price-clipped, very slightly bumped on edges). A collection of essays and contributions analysing the strategy and operations of the New Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, based on first-hand (and often dangerous) field research.