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Old 11-18-2012, 20:48   #1060
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Originally Posted by Unapologetic Soldier View Post
I finished reading, Taliban by Ahmed Rashid. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the history of the Taliban, who they are what they want and just how bat shit crazy they really are. It’s a very detailed book that’s hard to convert to memory and easy to get lost in the weeds with all the detail. I’ll be reading it again at some point just to make everything stick.

Now I'm starting Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. What a whooper of a read!
Read his second book, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia; but don't buy Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. His third book he didn;t want to write it but was under some contract. So for me it had little new information between Taliban, Chaos and No Country.
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