Afghanistan

The Afghan Quagmire

David Loyn, the only reporter with the Taliban when they took Kabul in 1996, takes issue with military historian Thomas Tulenko’s analysis of Britain’s 19th-century invasions of Afghanistan, first published in June 1980.

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The Afghan Quagmire

Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 12, 2009

Fun and War in Afghanistan

Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the coverage of one of ‘Victoria’s little wars’.

Published in History Today, Volume: 57 Issue: 11, 2007

Afghanistan and Gladstone's Moral Foreign Policy

Roland Quinault discusses Gladstone’s view of the Second Afghan War both in opposition and during his premiership.

Published in History Today, Volume: 52 Issue: 12, 2002

Fighting the Afghans in the 19th Century

Bruce Collins considers the mixture of adventurism, disaster, and lethal reprisal that marked British activities in Afghanistan under Victoria

Published in History Today, Volume: 51 Issue: 12, 2001

Two Invasions of Afghanistan

'Monumentally bad diplomacy, worse strategy, chaotic military organisation and inept generalship' - Thomas Tulenko describes how great powers have failed in their attacks on Afghanistan. Penned as Soviet tanks rolled into Kabul in December 1979, the BBC's David Loyn offered his own analysis thirty years later.

Published in History Today, Volume: 30 Issue: 6, 1980

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