Ansary Tamim. Games without Rules, The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

4th edition. — PublicAffairs, 1994. — ASIN: B00CAYKA86.Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.