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BYLINE: Reviewed by James Mitchell

From Africa to Afghanistan: With Richards and Nato to Kabul

by Greg Mills

Wits University Press R190

If you yawn at the prospect of a worthy tome by some fundi who spent a decade running the SA Institute of International Affairs, or who now bosses something called the Brenthurst Foundation, be not afraid. Consider this back-cover description from Independent Newspapers' Peter Fabricius: Author Dr Greg Mills, he writes, is "in his best journo-GI-egghead mode, ducking bullets as he dispenses advice on how to solve the Afghanistan conundrum".

That's right. Mills is that rare creature: an ...

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