TY - BOOK AU - Silinsky,Mark TI - The Taliban: Afghanistan's most lethal insurgents T2 - PSI guides to terrorists, insurgents, and armed groups SN - 9780313398971 (hardcopy : alk. paper) AV - DS371.3 .S56 2014 U1 - 958.104/7 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Santa Barbara, California PB - Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC KW - Taliban KW - fast KW - gnd KW - Islamic fundamentalism KW - Afghanistan KW - Political science KW - Politics and government KW - 1989-2001 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index; Foreword / by Raymond Taras -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Afghanistan's landscape, people, and islamism -- Enter the Taliban -- The taliban in power -- The Taliban in defeat -- The Taliban recover in Pakistan -- The Taliban improve their tactics -- Taliban Inc. -- Affiliated insurgent groups and foreign sources of aid -- The counterinsurgency in Afghanistan -- Afterword: dystopia -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index ER -