Kilcullen, David, <br/><br/>
The ledger :  accounting for failure in Afghanistan / 
David Kilcullen, Greg Mills. 
 - xxxi, 352 pages :  maps ;  19 cm. 
<br/><br/> 'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vacuum which the Taliban and Osama bin Laden would fill. The Ledger identifies and assesses the failures of the West's approach to Afghanistan after 9/11 - military, diplomatic, political and developmental. For Afghans, the war is not over because the West has declared it so, and neither will its geo-political effects simply disappear along with the last of NATO forces. Afghanistan remains connected to the world through communications and the networks of the last twenty years. The Ledger also considers these lessons for the benefit of future, similar peacebuilding missions in Africa and elsewhere. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781787386952 1787386953 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC1H6775  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Intervention (International law)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afghanistan--History--2001-<br/>Afghanistan--Foreign relations--2001-<br/>Afghanistan--Politics and government--2001-
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.1047