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This definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan is a politics background of Afghanistan in the "Age of Terror" from 2001 to 2009, discovering the fundamental tragedy of America's longest battle since Vietnam. Following the swift beat of the Taliban in 2001, American optimism has progressively evaporated when confronted with mounting violence; a new "war of a thousand cuts" has taken the country to its knees.After a brief survey of the fantastic empires in Afghanistan, Seth G. Jones examines the central question of our very own battle: how do an insurgency develop? Pursuing September 11, america successfully overthrew the Taliban plan. It established security throughout the country, and Afghanistan finally commenced to emerge from more than two decades of issue. But Jones argues that, as early as 2001, planning the Iraq Conflict siphoned off resources and talented personnel, undermining the gains that had been made. After eight years, america had pushed al-Qaeda's head office about one hundred miles over the border into Pakistan.While observing the tense, often adversarial romantic relationship between NATO allies in the Coalition, Jones presents us to key figures on both sides of the battle. Using important new research and integrating thousands of declassified federal documents, Jones analyzes the insurgency from a historical and structural perspective, showing how a rising drug trade, poor security forces, and pervasive corruption undermined the Karzai federal, while Americans left behind an effective strategy, didn't supply the necessary support, and allowed a growing sanctuary for insurgents in Pakistan to catalyze the Taliban resurgence.Examining what spent some time working thus far-and what has not-this serious and important reserve underscores the problems we face in stabilizing the country and explains where we proceeded to go wrong and what we should do to avoid the devastating fate that has befallen lots of the great world power to enter the region.
