Hubris, self-interest, and America's failed war in Afghanistan : the self-sustaining overreach / Thomas P. Cavanna.
"This book describes the conduct of the U.S.-led post-9/11 war6 in Afghanistan via a long-term historical perspective. It investigates the reasons behind Washington's entrapment in a self-sustaining overreach, emphasizing policy mistakes made in late 2001 and the contradictions associated...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Boooks,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Hubris, Self-interest, and America's failed war in Afghanistan: The self-sustaining overreach
- I. THE STRUCTURAL WEIGHT OF REALISM : FOREIGN SECURITY INTERESTS AND THE US ENTANGLEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN. US Cold War and post-Cold War policy : a volatile and security-driven interest for the Afghan pawn
- Operation Enduring Freedom : a campaign in search for strategic coherence
- Pouring the US-led coalition's resources in a bottomless pit : Pakistan's predictable double game
- II. TOWARD THE SELF-SUSTAINING OVERREACH : GRANDIOSE PROJECTS, STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITIES, AND QUESTIONABLE SUSTAINABILITY. The promises and profound ambiguities of the US-led coalition's democratization agenda
- The promises and profound ambiguities of the US-led reconstruction and state-building agenda
- The price of intractable contradictions : a seemingly unending security degradation
- III. THE OBAMA ERA : A FINAL SHOWDOWN TO SECURE A "DECENT INTERVAL?" The Obama Era : new intentions, same old strategic horizon
- The surge : disappointing results and unaltered path to withdrawal
- Afghanistan in 2015 : betrayed promises?
- Conclusion.