With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan

161 Pages·2014·1.13 MB·English

by  Kaplan, Robert D.

ROBERT D. KAPLAN
SHOULDERS of GOD

Robert D. Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the author of eight other
books on travel and foreign affairs, translated into many languages, including Balkan Ghosts,
The Coming Anarchy, The Ends of the Earth, and Eastward to Tartary.
ALSO BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

Eastward to Tartary:
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus

The Coming Anarchy:
Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future

The Ends of the Earth:
From Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia—
A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite

Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famine

For my mother
and
for my late father,
Philip A. Kaplan
I have seen much war in my lifetime and I hate it profoundly. But there are worse
things than war; and all of them come with defeat.
—Ernest Hemingway, Men at War
Contents

Introduction xv
PROLOGUE Walking Through a Minefield
ONE Frontier Town
TWO A World of Men
THREE Going up Khyber
FOUR Noble Savages
FIVE The Growth of a Commander
SIX Haji Babà and the Gucci Muj
EPILOGUE to the Onginal Edition Something I Only Imagined
SEVEN The Lawless Frontier
Acknowledgments
Bibliography