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Title Afghan endgames : strategy and policy choices for America's longest war / Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla, editors
Published Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) : illustrations
Series South Asia in world affairs series
South Asia in world affairs series
Contents Understanding the Afghan challenge / Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla -- A familiar Western experience in ancient Afghanistan / Victor Davis Hanson -- Afghan paradoxes / Thomas Barfield -- America's longest war / Hy Rothstein -- A case for withdrawal / Andrew J. Bacevich -- A case for staying the course / Frederick W. Kagan -- Afghanistan : the third way -- Edward N. Luttwak -- Beyond victory and defeat / Scott Sigmund Gartner and Leo Blanken -- The ethics of exit : moral obligation in the Afghan endgame / Russell Muirhead -- Shaping strategic communication / Robert Reilly -- Civil and uncivil society / Jade I. Rodriguez & Rebecca Lorentz -- Conclusion : Assessing the strategic alternatives / John Arquilla and Hy Rothstein
Summary The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant numbers of US combat troops will remain in Afghanistan until at least 2014, perhaps longer, depending on the situation on the ground and the outcome of the US presidential election in 2012. Given the realities of the Taliban's persistence and the desire of US policymakers-and the public-to find a way out, what can and should be the goals of the US and its allies in Afghanistan?. Afghan Endgames brings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Afghan War, 2001-2021.
HISTORY -- Military -- Afghan War (2001- )
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
Military policy.
International relations.
Strategic aspects of individual places.
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Strategic aspects
United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
United States -- Relations -- Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Relations -- United States
Subject Afghanistan.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Rothstein, Hy S
Arquilla, John
LC no. 2011036098
ISBN 1589019091
9781589019096