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Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Historian Returns to Afghanistan
Sean M. Maloney
How exactly do you stabilize a country that has been at war for nearly thirty years? Challenging the Chaos is the first book to look at the Provincial Reconstruction Teams, the Embedded Training Teams, Strategic Advisory Team-Afghanistan and other little-known units that helped the Afghan people establish a government after the Taliban fell.
384 pages, b/w photos
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 1, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9781591145080 |
| Publishers | Naval Institute Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 237 × 26 mm · 540 g |
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