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Seth G. Jones serves as an advisor and plans officer for the Commanding General, US Special Operations Forces, in Afghanistan. He contributes regularly to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
A useful and generally lively account of what can go wrong when outsiders venture onto the Afghan landscape. -- Steven Simon - Foreign Affairs This is a serious work that should be factored in as a new policy in Afghanistan evolves. -- Jay Freeman - Booklist Seth G. Jones's book provides a vivid sense of just how paltry and misguided the American effort has been... In the Graveyard of Empires will help to show what might still be done to build something enduring in Afghanistan and finally allow the U.S. to go home. -- Dexter Filkins - The New Republic [An] excellent book. -- James Blitz - Financial Times [Zeroes] in on what went awry after America's successful routing of the Taliban in late 2001. -- Michiko Kakutani - The New York Times A blueprint for winning in a region that has historically brought mighty armies to their knees. -- Doug Childers - Richmond Times-Dispatch Offers a valuable window onto how officials have understood the military campaign. -- Robert D. Crews - San Francisco Chronicle Seth Jones ... has an anthropologist's feel for a foreign society, a historian's intuition for long-term trends, and a novelist's eye for the telling details that illuminate a much larger story. If you read just one book about the Taliban, terrorism, and the United States, this is the place to start. -- Jeremi Suri, author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century A timely and important work, without peer in terms of both its scholarship and the author's intimate knowledge of the country, the insurgency threatening it, and the challenges in defeating it. -- Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University, author of Inside Terrorism A deeply researched and well-analyzed account of the failures of American policies in Afghanistan, In the Graveyard of Empires will be mandatory reading for policymakers from Washington to Kabul. -- Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know Seth Jones has combined forceful narrative with careful analysis, illustrating the causes of this deteriorating situation, and recommending sensible, feasible steps to reverse the escalating violence. -- James Dobbins, author of After the Taliban: Nation Building in Afghanistan
