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• Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021
• Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2014
• Afghanistan -- History

• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Literature and the war
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Motion pictures and the war
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Prisoners and prisons, American
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Propaganda
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Psychological aspects
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Veterans

• Afghanistan -- History -- Anti-terrorist operations, 2001-2021
• Afghan War, 2001-
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

• Left in the Dark: Failures of Accountability for Civilian Casualties Caused by International Military Operations in Afghanistan (2014), by Amnesty International (PDF with commentary at amnesty.org)
• Lessons Encountered: Learning From the Long War (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2015), ed. by Richard D. Hooker and Joseph J. Collins (multiple formats at NDU Press)
• Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace (London: LSE Press, c2022), ed. by Michael Cox (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• The Truth Left Behind: Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl (Washington: Center for Public Integrity, c2011), ed. by Asra Q. Nomani and Barbara Feinman Todd (PDF at publicintegrity.org)

• Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), by Alla Ivanchikova (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent (c2009), by Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), by Alla Ivanchikova (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Enduring Voices: Oral Histories of the U.S. Army Experience in Afghanistan, 2003-2005 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2008), ed. by Christopher N. Koontz (PDF at US Army CMH)

• Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply With the Law (New York: Human Rights First, c2011), by Daphne Eviatar (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Misleading Information From the Battlefield: Hearing Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, April 24, 2007 (Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Misleading Information From the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes (first committee report, with additional views from Tom Davis; 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, contrib. by Tom Davis (PDF at gpo.gov)

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families (Washington: National Academies Press, 2013), by Institute of Medicine Committee on the Initial Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families (multiple formats at NAP)

• Explaining the Increase in Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers During the Global War on Terror (c2008), by David S. Loughran and Jacob Alex Klerman (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Fresh Perspectives on the "War on Terror" (2008), ed. by Miriam Gani and Penelope Mathew (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Against Freedom: The War on Terrorism in Everyday New Zealand Life (2007), by Valerie Morse (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
• Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (multiple formats at Google)
• The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm (second edition, 2002), ed. by Jim A. Davis and Barry R. Schneider (PDF at hsdl.org)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)
• Ethics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (Frankfurt et al.: Ontos Verlag, c2005), ed. by Georg Meggle, Andreas Kemmerling, and Markus Textor (PDF with commentary at De Gruyer)
• The United States and the Persian Gulf: Reshaping Security Strategy for the Post-Containment Era (2003), ed. by Richard Sokolsky (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Behind the Wire: An Update to Ending Secret Detentions (New York: Human Rights First, 2004-2005), by Deborah Pearlstein and Priti Patel (PDF at The Rendition Project)
• The Secrecy Problem in Terrorism Trials (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2005), by Serrin Turner and Stephen J. Schulhofer (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Assessing the New Normal: Liberty and Security for the Post-September 11 United States (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2003), ed. by Fiona Doherty and Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at humanrightsfirst.org)
• Caught in the Crossfire: The Iraq War and the Media, a Diary of Claims and Counterclaims (c2003), by Anthony Löwstedt (PDF with commentary at IPI)
• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)
• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)
• A Year of Loss: Reexamining Civil Liberties Since September 11 (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2002), ed. by Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Educing Information: Interrogation, Science and Art: Foundations for the Future (Phase 1 report, 2006), by National Defense Intelligence College (U.S.) (PDF at fas.org)

• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• America and the Misshaping of a New World Order (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2010), ed. by Giles B. Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Roger Douglas
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Sahr MuhammedAlly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace (London: LSE Press, c2022), ed. by Michael Cox (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (multiple formats at Google)

• Afghanistan: The National Awakening (Lahore: Punjab Educational Press, 1958), by Mohammed Ali (PDF at Afghanistan Digital Library)
• Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier, by David B. Edwards (HTML at UC Press)
• Afghanistan: An Introduction to the Country and People (ca.2003), by Marine Corps Institute (U.S.) (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Afghan Progress in the Third Year of the Plan (1959), by Afghanistan Information Bureau (PDF at Afghanistan Digital Library)
• A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun, With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries (Philadelphia: J. Dobson; et al., 1842), by Josiah Harlan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace (London: LSE Press, c2022), ed. by Michael Cox (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad, by David B. Edwards (HTML at UC Press)

• The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (1996), ed. by Lester W. Grau (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Predicting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Intelligence Community's Record (Washington: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2002), by Douglas J. MacEachin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why Soviet Troops are in Afghanistan (New York: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1980), by William J. Pomeroy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Silent Soldier: The Man Behind the Afghan Jehad (1991), by Mohammad Yousaf (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at archive.org)
• Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982, by M. Hassan Kakar (HTML at UC Press)
• Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad, by David B. Edwards (HTML at UC Press)

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