Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2010, pp. 430, ISBN 978-0-393-33851-5 (paperback
Forrest E. Morgan, C. Christine Fair, Keith Crane, Christopher S. Chivvis, Samir Puri, and Michael Spirtas, Can United States Secure an Insecure State , RAND Corporation, US, 2010, pp. 232, ISBN 978-0-8330-4807-3 (paperback)
Harold Gould, The South Asia Story: The First Sixty Years of US Relations with India and Pakistan, Sage, New Delhi, 2010, pp. 136, ISBN 978-81-321-0121-5 (paperback)