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UML produces static, detailed, non-runnable flowchart-like models. Think Visio. System dynamics produces dynamics, general, runnable simulation models in time series. They complement each other, but in my experience do not overlap much. Think Powersim, Vensim, or iThink. Having spent most of the las...

The best book Ive read on the topic is "Afghanistans Endless War," by Larry Goodson. Goodsons chief insight is that Afghanistans breakdown is part of a worldwide pattern far beyond the West and Islam, which he describes in some detail. "Taliban," by Ahmed Rashid is the best of th...