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Tall Tactics: England Affghanistan is a 50-page essay by an unidentified author on British foreign policy, particularly policy toward Afghanistan, published during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). The war was initiated under the Conservative government of Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield), who was prime minister from February 1874 to April 1880. Disraeli was preceded by the Liberal William Gladstone (in office December 1868‒February 1874). Written from the Liberal point of view, the essay is an attack on Disraeli’s policies and a defense of those of Gladstone. It begins ...