| Description |
1 online resource (7 volumes (chiefly slides)) : color illustrations, color maps (digital, PDF file) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The failures that shaped today's war -- pt. 2. Transitioning to the new strategy -- pt. 3. Key ongoing challenges -- pt. 4. Hold and build, and the challenge of development -- pt. 5. Building effective Afghan forces -- pt. 6. Showing victory is possible. -- pt. 7. The problem of Pakistan and the probability of grand strategic success |
| Summary |
The Burke Chair has prepared an analytic overview of unclassified metrics, and of their current content relates to the challenges in policy, plans, resources, and management of the war that now reduce the prospects of victory. It should be stressed that such an analysis is only a way of flagging key trends and developments within the limits imposed by using unclassified official reporting. Moreover, metrics are not a substitute for the kind of narrative that is critical to understand the complexity of this war, and put numbers, charts, and maps in context. This is a case where facing the real-world complexity of the conflict is essential to winning it. Even an overview of the strengths and weakness of unclassified metrics does, however, provide considerable insight into what is known about the war, and the many areas where meaningful reporting is lacking and the reporting available is deceptive and misleading. The US, its allies, and ISAF may currently be repeating the same kind of overall messaging as the 'follies' presented in Vietnam, but there are enough areas where facts still become public to put much of the war into perspective |
| Notes |
Title from Part 1 cover screen (viewed March 9, 2011) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Adobe Reader |
| Subject |
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Statistics
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Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan -- Statistics
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Insurgency -- Afghanistan -- Statistics
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Armed Forces.
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Insurgency.
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Postwar reconstruction.
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- Armed Forces -- Statistics
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| Subject |
Afghanistan.
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
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