TY - BOOK AU - Kilcullen,David AU - Mills,Gregory TI - The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan SN - 9781787386952 U1 - 958.1047 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd KW - Intervention (International law) KW - Afghanistan KW - History KW - 2001- KW - Foreign relations KW - Politics and government N2 - '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 ER -