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Author Waltz, Michael G., author.

Title Warrior Diplomat : a Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
Published Dulles : Potomac Books Inc., 2014

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Description 1 online resource (427 pages)
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction: A Little Girl in Ghazni; 1. State of the War: Office of the Secretary of Defense; 2. Arabs, Afghans, and Americans: The War of Ideas; 3. The Tagab Valley: Patrolling to Ambush; 4. The Clinic in Achin: Development Dilemmas; 5. The Road to Musa Qala: The Taliban Are Back; 6. The French in Maruf: A Pawn in a Diplomatic Game; 7. Operation Perth: War by Consensus; 8. Back to Washington: The Pentagon and the White House
9. The Mangal Tribe: Protecting People We Can't Access10. The Elder in Khost: Risk Aversion and the Cost of Inaction; 11. Night Raid: The Catch- and- Release Detention System; 12. Blackbeard Rising: The Afghan National Army Commandos; 13. On the Border with Pakistan: The Rocket's Red Glare; 14. The Tribes of Chamkani: The Community Defense Initiative; 15. Washington Again: Wishing the Problem Away; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have dealt with these issues in the White House situation room and on the front line. Michael G. Waltz has done just that, working as a policy advisor to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and also serving in the mountains of Afghanistan as a Green Beret, directly implementing strategy in the field that he helped devis
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Subject Waltz, Michael G
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American
Special forces (Military science) -- United States.
National security -- United States.
Special forces (Military science) -- Afghanistan
Civil defense -- Afghanistan
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Civil defense
Military policy
National security
Special forces (Military science)
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy -- 21st century
Subject Afghanistan
United States
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612346328
1612346324