@article{1577042e997e4243bf189d414454a7c8,
title = "{\textquoteleft}Graveyard of empires{\textquoteright}: Geopolitics, war and the tragedy of Afghanistan",
keywords = "Afghanistan, Great Powers, Geopolitics, War, US foreign policy, South Asia, Russia, War on Terror, Intelligence",
author = "Hughes, {R Gerald} and James Fergusson",
note = "James Fergusson is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent, specialising in Islamic affairs. His book on NATO{\textquoteright}s campaign in southern Afghanistan, A Million Bullets (2008), was the British Army{\textquoteright}s Military Book of the Year. A follow-up book, Taliban (2010), re-appraised NATO{\textquoteright}s notorious enemy and argued the case for renewed Western dialogue with them. The World{\textquoteright}s Most Dangerous Place (2013), about Somalia, was short-listed for the Orwell Prize. His latest book, Al-Britannia, My Country (2017), which argues for a new approach to Britain{\textquoteright}s growing Muslim community, was described by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams as {\textquoteleft}a seriously necessary book{\textquoteright}. R. Gerald Hughes is Reader in Military History and Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies at Aberystwyth University. Hughes is the reviews editor of Intelligence & National Security, the world{\textquoteright}s leading journal on the role of intelligence in international affairs, and is the former editor of the UK Study Group on Intelligence newsletter. His publications include Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European D{\'e}tente, 1949–1967 (2007); The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (2014); and, as editor, The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal (2016); and Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State (2008). R. Gerald Hughes is a member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).",
year = "2019",
month = nov,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1080/02684527.2019.1571695",
language = "English",
volume = "34",
pages = "1070--1084",
journal = "Intelligence and National Security",
issn = "0268-4527",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
number = "7",
}