The year 1809 opened auspiciously for Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. It was now March, the very beginning of that brief Afghan spring, and the pulse was slowly returning to the veins of the icy landscape long ...

This is the most unusual book I have read in a long time. On a first reading, almost every page contained a comment that I strenuously disagreed with as well as an insight that completely overturned a ...

Michael Rubin is an Iraq political scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He is author of Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran. Robert Blackwill, a deputy ...