Descent Into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid.
www.amazon.co.uk/Descent-into-Chaos-unstable-security/dp/0141020865
Book about the last ten years in Afghanistan & Pakistan, very interesting stuff, but his writing style is terrible, it's like wading through a 450-page encyclopedia entry that hasn't been copy edited.
( Zuowan, Thu 16 Jun 2011, 13:46, archived)