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: the decisive action of the Second Afghan War. General Burrows’ little army of
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The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A
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It is time our leaders acknowledged that military involvement in Afghanistan has done more to undermine Britain’s standing in the world than
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From the start, what little order there was went awry. As pillaging Afghans moved into the emptying cantonment, panic ran through the
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The invaders of Afghanistan find themselves waging a war against an enemy who is never there.
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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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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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