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Insight with David Loyn: Afghanistan - 200 Years of Intervention
By: Frontline
Posted: Oct 10 08
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Regions: Afghanistan
Issues: Armed conflict
Tags: Afghanistan, conflict, Frontline Club, journalism, Loyn, news, Taleban, terrorism, world
Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for foreign empires for more than 200 years. The British, Russians and Americans have all fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain, in conflicts variously ruthless, misguided and bloody. A century ago, the common sneer about how British soldiers treated Afghan tribesmen was that they would 'butcher' them, then 'bolt'. This violent history is the subject of David Loyn's book.
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