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No Good Men Among the Living

Anand Gopal

What happens when a war is fought on the belief that people sort neatly into the good and the evil?

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Author
Anand Gopal

Why read it

  • You will see how a war built on sorting friends from foes can misread a distant battlefield
  • You will learn how labels people create and then believe, such as terrorist or ally, can become a matter of life and death
  • You will understand how, for Afghans on the ground, the many sides of the war blended into something unmanageable

Who it is for

  • A reader who wants Afghanistan told from Afghan lives
  • A student of the war on terror and its failures
  • A policy follower wary of good versus evil framing

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. PART ONE
  3. 1. The Last Days of Vice and Virtue
  4. 2. The Battle for Tirin Kot
  5. 3. The War from Year Zero
  6. 4. The Sewing Center of Khas Uruzgan
  7. PART TWO
  8. 5. No One Is Safe from This
  9. 6. To Make the Bad Things Good Again
  10. 7. Black Holes
  11. PART THREE
  12. 8. Election Day
  13. 9. The Far End of the Bazaar
  14. PART FOUR
  15. 10. Back to Work
  16. 11. The Tangi
  17. 12. No-Man’s-Land
  18. PART FIVE
  19. 13. Stepping Out
  20. 14. The Leader
  21. Epilogue
  22. A NOTE ON SOURCES

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