Sumanth Inukonda is Associate Professor of Communication at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Media, Nationalism and Globalization: The Telangana Movement and Indian Politics (2020).Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus of the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author or editor of some 25 scholarly books, including, most recently, Conflict Propaganda in Syria (2021).Lara Martin Lengel is Professor of Media and Communications at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her 30 refereed journal articles address, among others, embodied activism, discursive cleansing of Indigenous groups, memory politics, and strategic and visual narratives of geopolitical conflict.

• 1 Introduction Part I: Propaganda and Interventionism 2 Invading and Occupying Afghanistan and Iraq: The Geopolitics of Pretext 3 The ‘Great Game’ and the Long Arc of Imperialism 4 Narrative Consolidation of 9/11, 2001-2003 5 Framing ‘Peace’ and ‘Security’ for the War on Terror: From Okinawa to Afghanistan 6 Strategic Narratives and Interventionism Part II: Geopolitics and Imperialism 7 The Rise and Fall, and Rise of the Taliban 8 Counterinsurgents versus Counter-terrorists: The Role of the News Media in the 2009 U.S. Afghanistan Strategy Review 9 Women, Religious Minorities, and Humanitarian Interventions 10 The Troubled Search for a Post-Imperial Mission: Spain in Afghanistan Part III: Media and the Global War on Terror 11 Cross-Border Reporting by Pashtun Journalists on Taliban’s Afghanistan 12 The Afghan Girl Grows Up: (Re)Circulation of an Iconic Image 13 Hollywood’s Role in Laying the Groundwork for the Global War on Terror 14 Urbicide and Hollywood 15 Afghanistan to Ukraine and Beyond: An Afterword

Sumanth Inukonda is Associate Professor of Communication at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Media, Nationalism and Globalization: The Telangana Movement and Indian Politics (2020).Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus of the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author or editor of some 25 scholarly books, including, most recently, Conflict Propaganda in Syria (2021).Lara Martin Lengel is Professor of Media and Communications at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her 30 refereed journal articles address, among others, embodied activism, discursive cleansing of Indigenous groups, memory politics, and strategic and visual narratives of geopolitical conflict.

• 1 Introduction Part I: Propaganda and Interventionism 2 Invading and Occupying Afghanistan and Iraq: The Geopolitics of Pretext 3 The ‘Great Game’ and the Long Arc of Imperialism 4 Narrative Consolidation of 9/11, 2001-2003 5 Framing ‘Peace’ and ‘Security’ for the War on Terror: From Okinawa to Afghanistan 6 Strategic Narratives and Interventionism Part II: Geopolitics and Imperialism 7 The Rise and Fall, and Rise of the Taliban 8 Counterinsurgents versus Counter-terrorists: The Role of the News Media in the 2009 U.S. Afghanistan Strategy Review 9 Women, Religious Minorities, and Humanitarian Interventions 10 The Troubled Search for a Post-Imperial Mission: Spain in Afghanistan Part III: Media and the Global War on Terror 11 Cross-Border Reporting by Pashtun Journalists on Taliban’s Afghanistan 12 The Afghan Girl Grows Up: (Re)Circulation of an Iconic Image 13 Hollywood’s Role in Laying the Groundwork for the Global War on Terror 14 Urbicide and Hollywood 15 Afghanistan to Ukraine and Beyond: An Afterword

Sumanth Inukonda is Associate Professor of Communication at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Media, Nationalism and Globalization: The Telangana Movement and Indian Politics (2020).Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus of the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author or editor of some 25 scholarly books, including, most recently, Conflict Propaganda in Syria (2021).Lara Martin Lengel is Professor of Media and Communications at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her 30 refereed journal articles address, among others, embodied activism, discursive cleansing of Indigenous groups, memory politics, and strategic and visual narratives of geopolitical conflict.

• 1 Introduction Part I: Propaganda and Interventionism 2 Invading and Occupying Afghanistan and Iraq: The Geopolitics of Pretext 3 The ‘Great Game’ and the Long Arc of Imperialism 4 Narrative Consolidation of 9/11, 2001-2003 5 Framing ‘Peace’ and ‘Security’ for the War on Terror: From Okinawa to Afghanistan 6 Strategic Narratives and Interventionism Part II: Geopolitics and Imperialism 7 The Rise and Fall, and Rise of the Taliban 8 Counterinsurgents versus Counter-terrorists: The Role of the News Media in the 2009 U.S. Afghanistan Strategy Review 9 Women, Religious Minorities, and Humanitarian Interventions 10 The Troubled Search for a Post-Imperial Mission: Spain in Afghanistan Part III: Media and the Global War on Terror 11 Cross-Border Reporting by Pashtun Journalists on Taliban’s Afghanistan 12 The Afghan Girl Grows Up: (Re)Circulation of an Iconic Image 13 Hollywood’s Role in Laying the Groundwork for the Global War on Terror 14 Urbicide and Hollywood 15 Afghanistan to Ukraine and Beyond: An Afterword