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Afghanistan: graveyard of armies

A huge, mountainous, landlocked Central Asian state, Afghanistan has defied invaders for 2,500 years. Jules Stewart takes a look at the country’s…

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Map of the Battle of Maiwand – 27 July 1880

Map of the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880: the decisive action of the Second Afghan War. General Burrows’ little army of…

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Map of the Third Afghan War 1919

The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…

Afghanistan/Blog/Feature/Modern

Bob Shepherd on defence cuts and why British troops should withdraw from Afghanistan

It is time our leaders acknowledged that military involvement in Afghanistan has done more to undermine Britain’s standing in the world than…

Afghanistan/Feature/Modern

The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842

From the start, what little order there was went awry. As pillaging Afghans moved into the emptying cantonment, panic ran through the…

Afghanistan/Feature/Modern

Fighting phantoms: guerrilla warfare from Lawrence to the Taliban

The invaders of Afghanistan find themselves waging a war against an enemy who is never there.…

Afghanistan/Battle Maps/Feature/Modern

The Retreat from Kabul – Map

The first part of our Afghanistan series begins in Issue 1, with an in-depth chronicling of the British army’s disastrous retreat from…

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Afghanistan/Feature/Modern

From Lawrence to the Taliban

Liar and self-promoting charlatan? Or military genius and romantic revolutionary? Dr. Neil Falkner explores T E Lawrence's relevance to contemporary warfare.…


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