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Funding the enemy : how US taxpayers bankroll the Taliban / Douglas A. Wissing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2012. Description: 396 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781616146030
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS371.4. W57 2012
Contents:
Contents: List of abbreviations—Chronology : timeline of key events in Afghanistan War—Prologue : outsourcing and incoming, 2001—Introduction—Chapter 1. True peace, 2002—Chapter 2 : the creeping mission : development and the military—Chapter 3 : making some arrangements : the United States, opium, and the Afghans—Chapter 4 : loss of focus—Chapter 5 : all together : the culture of corruption—Chapter 6 : the neo-Taliban : a learning organization—Chapter 7 : housecats of Kabul—Chapter 8 : the afterthought war : zigzag strategies—Chapter 9 : the broken agency : USAID—Chapter 10 : the COIN flip—Chapter 11 : the realization—Chapter 12 : they get that : agricultural development in Afghanistan—Chapter 13 : change-management strategy—Chapter 14 : the complexities—Chapter 15 : the perfect war—Chapter 16 : the way—Acknowledgments—Notes—Index.

Maps on lining pages.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: List of abbreviations—Chronology : timeline of key events in Afghanistan War—Prologue : outsourcing and incoming, 2001—Introduction—Chapter 1. True peace, 2002—Chapter 2 : the creeping mission : development and the military—Chapter 3 : making some arrangements : the United States, opium, and the Afghans—Chapter 4 : loss of focus—Chapter 5 : all together : the culture of corruption—Chapter 6 : the neo-Taliban : a learning organization—Chapter 7 : housecats of Kabul—Chapter 8 : the afterthought war : zigzag strategies—Chapter 9 : the broken agency : USAID—Chapter 10 : the COIN flip—Chapter 11 : the realization—Chapter 12 : they get that : agricultural development in Afghanistan—Chapter 13 : change-management strategy—Chapter 14 : the complexities—Chapter 15 : the perfect war—Chapter 16 : the way—Acknowledgments—Notes—Index.

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