'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the
world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the
anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With
no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled by
the Taliban and bin Laden. 'The Ledger' assesses the West's
similarly failed approach to Afghanistan after 9/11--in military,
diplomatic, political and developmental terms. Dr David Kilcullen
and Dr Greg Mills are uniquely placed to reflect backwards and
forwards on the Afghan conflict: they worked with the international
mission both as advisers and within the Arg, and they have
considerable experience of counterinsurgency and stabilisation
operations elsewhere in the world. Here these two experts show that
there is plenty of blame to go around when explaining the failure
to bring peace to Afghanistan after 9/11. The signs of collapse
were conveniently ignored, in favour of political narratives of
progress and success. Yet for Afghans, the war and its geopolitical
effects are not over because NATO is gone--Afghanistan remains
globally connected through digital communications and networks.
This vital book explains why and where failings in Afghanistan
happened, warning against exceptionalist approaches to future
peacebuilding missions around the globe.
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