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A vulcan's tale : how the Bush administration mismanaged the reconstruction of Afghanistan
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"Presents details behind the Bush administration's policies and actions in Afghanistan and Iraq from the point of view of a high-level budget official in the U.S. Defense Department involved in the...
"Presents details behind the Bush administration's policies and actions in Afghanistan and Iraq from the point of view of a high-level budget official in the U.S. Defense Department involved in the day-to-day management of funding Afghan reconstruction beginning in 2002"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Dov S. Zakheim
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- English
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2011
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9780815721260, 0815721226, 9780815721222, 0815721269, 9781283134545, 1283134543, 9786613134547
- OCLC
- ocn727649505, ocn731207950, ocn696099423
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.
- Introduction -- Nation building and the 2000 campaign -- Musical chairs: positioning for a top job on the new team -- Transition to government -- "From now on, we will only request a supplemental in wartime" -- 9/11 -- Funding Operation Enduring Freedom -- Pakistan -- Passing the tin cup -- The cost of war -- Gearing up for Iraq, losing focus on Afghanistan -- Coordinator for Afghanistan reconstruction -- War fever -- A second war, the first unfinished -- On the road: New York, Latin America, Iraq, Poland, Spain -- "I am the custodian of the Iraqi people" -- Engaging Syria -- Defense contractors -- "Afghanistan, we haven't forgotten you" -- Epilogue: where do we go from here?
Subjects
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- United States -- Finance -- Decision making.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009 -- Decision making.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Economic aspects -- United States.
- Nation-building -- Afghanistan.
- Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan.
- Postwar reconstruction -- Government policy -- United States.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan -- Foreign relations.