Nine years after their supposed 'liberation' from the Taliban, the Afghan people are still caught up in several wars - some seeing the foreign troops as their saviours, while others see them as the enemy. Then there are the other enemies, including the ever more prosperous drug lords. In his UN security role, Rodney Cocks has been at the heart of the attempt to win the unwinnable war, seeing himself and his UN colleagues increasingly cast in the role of little more than 'counter insurgents'. This book is an attempt to answer the question: 'What is really going on in Afghanistan?' The picture painted by Cocks is detailed, illuminating and at times colourful - even if it also tells us things we would rather not know.