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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan - Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland (Hardcover)
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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan - Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland (Hardcover)
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In June 2011, the hallways of the district government center in
rural Dand District, Afghanistan hummed with activity, with scores
of local village elders visiting offices to appeal for assistance
and handouts. Outside, insurgents had been pushed out of the
district and were confined to sporadic attacks along its fringes.
Farmers sold their produce, thousands of children attended school
and people voted in district elections. At the very heart of the
Taliban insurgency, the government had won the war. However, the
district faced a crisis that threatened its future. Resources were
shrinking and the new government had concerns about remaining
relevant to the people once America left. Within 12 months,
Americans pulled out of Afghanistan, leaving the Afghan government
to fail, undermining the achievements of thousands of soldiers and
civilians. How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in
the Pashtun Homeland by Douglas Grindle tells the never-been-told,
first person account of how the war in Afghanistan was won, and how
the newly created peace started to slip away when vital resources
failed to materialize and the American military headed home. By
placing the reader at the heart of the American counter-insurgency
effort, Grindle reveals little-known incidents that include the
failure of expensive aid programs to target local needs, the slow
throttling of local government as official funds failed to reach
the districts, and our inexplicable failure to empower the Afghan
local officials even after they succeeded in bringing the people
onto their side. How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan
presents the side of the hard-working, competent Afghans who won
the war and what they really thought of the U.S. military and their
decisions. Written by a former field officer for the U.S. Agency
for International Development, this book tells of how America's
desire to leave the Middle East ultimately overwhelmed our need to
sustain victory.
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