Seth G. Jones: In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
Martin Ewans: Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics
John A. Nagl: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Gretchen Peters: Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda
David Kilcullen: The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Ahmed Rashid: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia