亲密战争：1978-2012赫尔曼德省冲突口述历史(An Intimate War - An Oral History Of The Helmand Conflict) [机翻]

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一场亲密的战争讲述了在赫尔曼德省过去三十四年的冲突的故事，从赫尔曼德人的角度看，阿富汗斯坦。在西方，这一时期通常通过不同的视角来定义——苏联干预、内战、塔利班和2001年后的建国时代。然而，正如当地居民所经历的那样，赫尔曼德冲突是一场持续不断的冲突，涉及相同的个人、家庭和群体，并由相同的土地、水和电力争论所驱动。这本书基于赫尔曼德的军事和研究经验以及普什图语的150种内部观点，提供了与媒体截然不同的赫尔曼德观点。它表明，局外人往往误解了赫尔曼德正在进行的斗争，他们这样做加剧了冲突，使冲突永久化，使冲突更加暴力——这与他们进行干预时的意图恰恰相反。迈克·马丁（Mike Martin）关于赫尔曼德的口述历史低估了理解“第三世界”大部分地区内部冲突的高度地方性、个人性和非意识形态性质的绝对必要性。 An Intimate War tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghani- stan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses - the Soviet intervention, the civil war, the Taliban, and the post-2001 nation-building era. Yet, as experienced by local inhabitants, the Helmand conflict is a perennial one, involving the same individuals, families and groups, and driven by the same arguments over land, water and power. This book - based on both military and re- search experience in Helmand and 150 inter- views in Pashto - offers a very different view of Helmand from those in the media. It demonstrates how outsiders have most often misunderstood the ongoing struggle in Helmand and how, in doing so, they have exacerbated the conflict, perpetuated it and made it more violent - precisely the opposite of what was intended when their interventions were launched. Mike Martin's oral history of Helmand under- scores the absolute imperative of understanding the highly local, personal, and non-ideological nature of internal conflict in much of the 'third' world.