BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS earned his first master s at the Central Eurasian studies program at Indiana University and a second master s in Russian history and a PhD in Central Asian history from the University of Wisconsin. Among his published works are "Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America s Longest War" (2011) and the upcoming "The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime" (2013). A tenured professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, he lives in Boston.