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Funding the enemy : how US taxpayers bankroll the Taliban
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Title
Funding the enemy : how US taxpayers bankroll the Taliban / Douglas A. Wissing.
ISBN
9781616146030 (cloth : alk. paper)
1616146036 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2012.
Physical Description
396 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Summary
Explores the mismanagement of American aid to Afghanistan and how these taxpayer dollars have wound up in the coffers of the Taliban, effectively losing the war for the United States.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 21, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Timeline of key events in Afghanistan War
Outsourcing and incoming, 2001
True peace, 2002
The creeping mission : development and the military
Making some arrangements : the United States, opium, and the Afghans
Loss of focus
All together : the culture of corruption
The neo-Taliban : a learning organization
Housecats of Kabul
The afterthought war : zigzag strategies
The broken agency : USAID
The COIN flip
The realization
They get that : agricultural development in Afghanistan
Change-management strategy
The complexities
The perfect war
The way.
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