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The Book Vue’s Review of The Lone Leopard
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Reviewer: Chitra Lyer Website: Book Vue Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Photo Credit: Mehdi Khoshnejad/Pexels External Review This review of The Lone Leopard by Dr Sharifullah Dorani was originally published on the BookVue blog as well as Goodreads. A concise summary is provided here for readers of this website. Key Comment “The Lone Leopard is an…
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The Rest Journal’s Review of The Lone Leopard
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Reviewer: David Dwyer Journal: The Rest Journal: Journal of Politics and Development Publication Date: 4 February 2023 External Review This review of The Lone Leopard by Dr Sharifullah Dorani was originally published in The Rest Journal: Journal of Politics and Development. A short excerpt and summary are presented here for readers of this website.…
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The Stratgey Bridge’s Review of The Lone Leopard
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Reviewer: Matthew C. Brand Journal: The Strategy Bridge Publication Date: 15 February 2023 Photo credit: David Peterson/ Pexels External Review This review of The Lone Leopard by *Dr Sharifullah Dorani was originally published in The Strategy Bridge. A short excerpt and summary are presented here for readers of this website. Key Comment “Sharifullah Dorani…
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Why Karzai Clashed with the US and NATO and What It Meant
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Photo Credit: Hamid Karzai portrait (2002) – Public domain (USAID/US federal government) By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘After our assault on Kabul, the United States had brought Karzai and his advisors back and installed them in power―functional expatriates we hoped would serve as the Afghan face of a new, nonmilitant order…[T]hey did their best to…
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After Evaluations, Bush Shifts Afghanistan ‘CT’ Strategy to COIN
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘Afghanistan ‘is slipping toward failure. The Taliban is back, violence is up, drug production is booming and the Afghans are losing faith in their government. All the legs of strategy ─ security, counternarcotics efforts, reconstruction and governance ─ have gone wobbly. If we should have had a surge anywhere, it…
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The Policy Assumptions Behind Bush’s War on Terror
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘[T]he nature of the response [to 9/11] was also shaped by some deeply embedded assumptions and beliefs within the administration about foreign policy and the appropriate role of the military.’[1] Introduction The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks prompted the George W Bush administration to initiate the Global War on Terror…
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Iraq War’s Impact on Afghanistan and Bush War Cabinet
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘I have a real concern that given our preoccupation in Iraq, we’ve not devoted sufficient troops and funding to Afghanistan to ensure success in that mission….Afghanistan has been the forgotten war.’ President George W Bush[1] Introduction As studied in my other article,[2] the Global War on Terror (GWOT), which the…