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A Vulcan's Tale

Author : Dov S. Zakheim
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815725469
Total Pages : 353 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 Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 353 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" was soon to discover while he struggled to fund and manage the reconstruction of civilian Afghanistan. A Vulcan's Tale is an authoritative, candid but fair account of how a wise and admirable goal can be waylaid by insufficient funding and ineffective coordination, with the result of faulty—or, at best, incomplete—implementation.

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.

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

Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan

Author : J. Montgomery
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981175
Total Pages : 245 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 245 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.

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.

Reconstructing Afghanistan

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 9781589063242
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Afghanistan written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which reflects the IMF staff's work in Afghanistan from early 2002 through the first quarter of 2004, provides an overview of the institutional and economic achievements in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban period, that is, from late 2001 to early 2004. During this period, the staff focused on helping (often under difficult circumstances) the Afghan authorities quickly establish abasic framework for economic management and policies, including rebuilding key institutions. Reconstructing Afghanistan describes the strong economic recovery that took place during 2002 and 2003; traces the formulation and implementation of the government’s budgetary policy; discusses the progress made in rebuilding fiscal institutions; and outlines the challenges and issues that the authorities faced in the area of monetary and exchange rate policy.

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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Download or read book Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces written by United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 284 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.

The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan

Author : Moonis Ahmar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan written by Moonis Ahmar and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan, held at Islamabad during 2-3 March 2005.

Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan

Author : Adam Pain
Publisher : Practical Action
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan written by Adam Pain and published by Practical Action. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be of interest to readers concerned with the future of Afghanistan and also those with a broader interest in post-conflict rehabilitation in fragile states, providing an important reference for operational agencies and researchers.

After the Taliban

Author : James Dobbins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597979880
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book After the Taliban written by James Dobbins and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen nation-building efforts in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, to war-torn Afghanistan to help the Afghans assemble a successor government to the Taliban. From warlords to exiled royalty, from turbaned tribal chieftains to elegant émigré intellectuals, Ambassador Dobbins introduces a range of colorful Afghan figures competing for dominance in the new Afghanistan. His firsthand account of the post-9/11 American diplomacy also reveals how collaboration within Bush's war cabinet began to break down almost as soon as major combat in Afghanistan ceased. His insider's memoir recounts how the administration reluctantly adjusted to its new role as nation-builder, refused to allow American soldiers to conduct peacekeeping operations, opposed dispatching international troops, and shortchanged Afghan reconstruction as its attention shifted to Iraq. In After the Taliban, Dobbins probes the relationship between the Afghan and Iraqi ventures. He demonstrates how each damaged the other, with deceptively easy success in Afghanistan breeding overconfidence and then the latter draining essential resources away from the initial effort. Written by America's most experienced diplomatic troubleshooter, this important new book is for readers looking for insights into how government really works, how diplomacy is actually conducted, and most important why the United States has failed to stabilize either Afghanistan or Iraq.

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.

Afghanistan's Endless War

Author : Larry P. Goodson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801581
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan's Endless War written by Larry P. Goodson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years. Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan’s inability to forge a strong state -- its myriad cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical fault lines -- Goodson then examines the devastating course of the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and the dispersal of some six million others as refugees to the complete collapse of its economy, which today has been replaced by monoagriculture in opium poppies and heroin production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson interviewed as recently as 1997, have controlled roughly 80 percent of the country but themselves have shown increasing discord along ethnic and political lines.

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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Reconstructing Afghanistan

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215513649
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Afghanistan written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HCP 1097-i, session 2006-07

Afghanistan reconstruction despite some progress, deteriorating security and other obstacles continue to threaten achievement of U.S. goals : report to congressional committees.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428932119
Total Pages : 97 pages
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Afghanistan

Author : Bahaudin Mujtaba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Bahaudin Mujtaba and published by . This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides a realistic and personal paradigm of what has happened in Afghanistan in the last three decades, starting with the invasion of the country by the Russian forces and continuing through what is happening now. He also shares the story of his family's escape from the country.