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A Vulcan's Tale

Author : Dov S. Zakheim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815721269
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book A Vulcan's Tale written by Dov S. Zakheim and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of how the Bush administration mismanaged its Afghan campaign, A Vulcan's Tale shines new and important light on the events and people behind the headlines in the immediate years following the September 11 attacks. The "Vulcans," so named by Condoleezza Rice, were eight foreign policy experts who advised George W. Bush during his 2000 presidential campaign. After Bush assumed the presidency, the Vulcans helped shape the administration's foreign policy following 9/11, including the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. All were veterans of past administrations, having served under either Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush, and they included among their ranks Dov Zakheim. Made comptroller and chief financial officer for the Department of Defense in 2001, Zakheim was also named the DoD's coordinator for Afghan civilian reconstruction in 2002. In A Vulcan's Tale, Zakheim draws on his own participation and intimate knowledge to analyze how the United States missed critical opportunities while it struggled to manage two wars, particularly the seemingly endless endeavor in Afghanistan. In his view, the Bush administration's disappointing results in Afghanistan were partly attributable to the enormity of the challenges, certainly. But flawed leadership and deficiencies of management, understanding, and forethought all played their parts as well. The power of the purse proved to be especially damaging. The Office of Management and Budget was slow to fund Defense's efforts at the outset of the Afghan conflict and then inadequately funded the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, casting the die for several additional years of conflict. The invasion of Iraq siphoned off critical resources for Afghanistan, thereby further complicating that country's reconstruction. Even with public policy of the highest order, the devil still lurked in the details, as the DoD's "money man"

Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan

Author : J. Montgomery
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981175
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan written by J. Montgomery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. This path breaking collection brings together top analysts to examine the goals and challenges facing efforts to reconstruct states that have collapsed into anarchy or have been defeated in war. Drawing on lessons from 50 years of past experience with post-conflict reconstruction and development around the world, the authors provide historical context, identify difficulties that can impede progress and recognize the realistic limitations of ambitions to create new states. They assess ongoing development plans in a country devastated by more than a century of conflict. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the interaction of the goals of external and domestic actors, highlighting the importance of understanding the internal social, economic and political environment of the society receiving assistance.

Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces

Author : United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160941382
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (413 download)

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Afghanistan reconstruction deteriorating security and limited resources have impeded progress : improvements in U.S. strategy needed : report to congressional committees.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428934510
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan reconstruction deteriorating security and limited resources have impeded progress : improvements in U.S. strategy needed : report to congressional committees. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Examining U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Examining U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Afghanistan Papers

Author : Craig Whitlock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982159014
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Afghanistan Papers written by Craig Whitlock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.

Afghanistan Reconstruction

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan Reconstruction written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Afghanistan Reconstruction

Author : David Gootnick (au)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422302262
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan Reconstruction written by David Gootnick (au) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

Author : Arnold Fields
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437935753
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) written by Arnold Fields and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Afghanistan, the U.S. has begun to implement the new strategy articulated by Pres. Obama in Dec. 2009. The U.S. military and civilian surge is intended to create an 18-month window of opportunity to strengthen the Afghan government¿s ability to provide for its security and deliver essential services to its people. The U.S. gov¿t. needs to improve the way it designs and implements reconstruction programs. More attention must be paid in these 4 areas: matching the appropriate human and financial resources to achieve policy objectives; developing metrics to measure project and program results to ensure that reconstruction goals are being met; providing better oversight of contractors; and increasing efforts to deter corruption.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis

Author : Adenrele Awotona
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135133400X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis written by Adenrele Awotona and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan. The book draws together expert contributions from countries across three continents – Asia, Europe and North America – which have provided external aid to Afghanistan. Using international, regional and local approaches, it highlights the importance of rebuilding sustainable communities in the midst of ongoing uncertainties. It explores the efficacy of external aid; challenges faced; the response of multilateral international agencies; the role of women in the reconstruction process; and community-based natural disaster risk management strategies. Finally, it looks at the lessons learned in the conflict reconstruction process to better prepare the country for future potential human, economic, infrastructural and institutional vulnerabilities.

U. S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan Would Benefit from a Finalized Comprehensive U. S. Anti-Corruption Strategy

Author : John Brummet
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437980953
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book U. S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan Would Benefit from a Finalized Comprehensive U. S. Anti-Corruption Strategy written by John Brummet and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2002, the U.S. has appropriated more than $50 billion for reconstruction assistance in Afghanistan, and in 2010 the Obama administration submitted budget requests for an additional $20 billion to help the Afghan government build its capacity to defend itself and govern effectively. Fighting corruption and increasing accountability are important components of the U.S. reconstruction strategy for Afghanistan. This report identifies: (1) U.S. assistance to help the Afghan government develop its anti-corruption capabilities; and (2) the capacity of Afghanistan's key anti-corruption institutions. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.

Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan

Author : Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (U.S.)
Publisher : U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions
ISBN 13 : 9780160948312
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan written by Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (U.S.) and published by U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the second in a series of lessons learned reports which examine how the U.S. government and Departments of Defense, State, and Justice carried out reconstruction programs in Afghanistan. In particular, the report analyzes security sector assistance (SSA) programs to create, train and advise the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) between 2002 and 2016. This publication concludes that the effort to train the ANDSF needs to continue, and provides recommendations for the SSA programs to be improved, based on lessons learned from careful analysis of real reconstruction situations in Afghanistan. The publication states that the United States was never prepared to help create Afghan police and military forces capable of protecting that country from internal and external threats. It is the hope of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John F. Sopko, that this publication, and other SIGAR reports will create a body of work that can help provide reasonable solutions to help United States agencies and military forces improve reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Related items: Counterterrorism publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/counterterrorism Counterinsurgency publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/counterinsurgency Warfare & Military Strategy publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/warfare-military-strategy Afghanistan War publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/afghanistan-war

The U.S. Experience with Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan

Author : Robert Perito
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The U.S. Experience with Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan written by Robert Perito and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan Would Benefit from a Finalized Comprehensive U.S. Anti-corruption Strategy

Author : United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan Would Benefit from a Finalized Comprehensive U.S. Anti-corruption Strategy written by United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the results of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction's review of U.S. efforts to strengthen the anti-corruption capabilities of the Afghan government. It includes recommendations to finalize the draft U.S. anti-corruption strategy for Afghanistan and to consider increasing the level of assistance provided to key Afghan oversight institutions, particularly internal audit departments of Afghan government ministries.

Statebuilding in Afghanistan

Author : Nik Hynek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136661018
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Statebuilding in Afghanistan written by Nik Hynek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume maps and theorizes NATO-ISAF’s multi-national contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. It answers key questions through a series of case studies which together form a comparative study of national contributions to the multilateral mission in Afghanistan.

Stabilization

Author : United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Stabilization written by United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stabilization: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan is the fourth lessons learned report issued by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. The report examines the U.S. stabilization effort in Afghanistan, detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Departments of State and Defense tried to support and legitimize the Afghan government in contested districts from 2002 through 2017. The report identifies lessons to inform U.S. policies and actions to stabilize a country or region before and during a contingency operation and provides recommendations to do so. With the rise of the Islamic State and its affiliates, making poorly governed spaces inhospitable to transnational terrorist groups remains a vital U.S. national security priority.

Reconstructing Afghanistan

Author : William Maley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317608933
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Afghanistan written by William Maley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The book has three main themes. Firstly, the volume analyses why the ways in which civil and military actors interact in theatres of operations such as Afghanistan matter — for both those categories of actors, and for the ordinary people who their interactions serve. Second, the book highlights that these interactions are invariably complex. The third theme, which arises specifically from ‘the PRT experience’ in Afghanistan, is that such teams vary significantly in their roles, resourcing, and operational environments. Consequently, to appraise the value of ‘the PRT experience’, it is necessary to unpack the experiences of different PRTs, which the use of case studies allows one to do. The volume comprises an introduction, identifying some key questions to which the PRT experience gives rise, and case studies of the experiences of the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, Germany and France; chapters dealing with the roles played by NGOs and the UN system and a discussion from an Afghan perspective of the implications of civilian casualties. It is the combination of the diverse cases discussed in this book with a focus on the broad challenges of optimising civil-military interactions that makes this book distinctive. This book will be of much interest to students of the Afghan War, civil-military relations, statebuilding, Central Asian politics and IR in general.