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The Afghanistan Papers
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Author : Craig Whitlock
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-08-30
The Afghanistan Papers written by Craig Whitlock and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-30 with History categories.
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.
The Afghanistan Papers
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Author : Lenny Flank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Afghanistan Papers written by Lenny Flank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The Afghanistan War from the inside. Over 800 classified reports by the troops in the field, presenting the reality of how the war is being fought on the ground. Assassinations, demonstrations, ambushes, IEDs. The unvarnished truth about the insurgent war that we are not winning.
The Afghanistan Papers Part 1
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Author : Michael Banks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-12
The Afghanistan Papers Part 1 written by Michael Banks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with categories.
A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.The U.S. government tried to shield the identities of the vast majority of those interviewed for the project and conceal nearly all of their remarks. The Post won release of the documents under the Freedom of Information Act after a three-year legal battle.More storiesTHE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS Part 1: At war with the truthPART 1At war with the truthU.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.PART 2Stranded without a strategyBush and Obama had polar-opposite plans to win the war. Both were destined to fail.PART 3Built to failDespite vows the U.S. wouldn't get mired in "nation-building," it has wasted billions doing just thatPART 4Consumed by corruptionThe U.S. flooded the country with money -- then turned a blind eye to the graft it fueledPART 5Unguarded nationAfghan security forces, despite years of training, were dogged by incompetence and corruptionPART 6Overwhelmed by opiumThe U.S. war on drugs in Afghanistan has imploded at nearly every turnINTERVIEWS AND MEMOSExplore the documentsKey insiders speak bluntly about the failures of the longest conflict in U.S. historyPOST REPORTS'We didn't know what the task was'Hear candid interviews with former ambassador Ryan Crocker and retired Lt. Gen. Michael FlynnTHE FIGHT FOR THE DOCUMENTSAbout the investigationIt took three years and two federal lawsuits for The Post to pry loose 2,000 pages of interview recordsMORE STORIES A visual timeline of the war Interviewees respond Share your story about the warIn the interviews, more than 400 insiders offered unrestrained criticism of what went wrong in Afghanistan and how the United States became mired in nearly two decades of warfare.With a bluntness rarely expressed in public, the interviews lay bare pent-up complaints, frustrations and confessions, along with second-guessing and backbiting."We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan -- we didn't know what we were doing," Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House's Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: "What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.""If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction ... 2,400 lives lost," Lute added, blaming the deaths of U.S. military personnel on bureaucratic breakdowns among Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department. "Who will say this was in vain?"Since 2001, more than 775,000 U.S. troops have deployed to Afghanistan, many repeatedly. Of those, 2,300 died there and 20,589 were wounded in action, according to Defense Department figures.The interviews, through an extensive array of voices, bring into sharp relief the core failings of the war that persist to this day. They underscore how three presidents -- George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump -- and their military commanders have been unable to deliver on their promises to prevail in Afghanistan.THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERSSee the documents More than 2,000 pages of interviews and memos reveal a secret history of the war.Part 2: Stranded without a strategy Conflicting objectives dogged the war from the start.Responses to The Post from people named in The Afghanistan PapersWith most speaking on the assumption that their remarks would not become public, U.S. officials acknowledged that their warfighting strategies were fatally flawed and that Washington wasted enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation.
Summary And Analysis Of The The Afghanistan Papers A Secret History Of The War
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Author : Easy Reads
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-21
Summary And Analysis Of The The Afghanistan Papers A Secret History Of The War written by Easy Reads and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-21 with categories.
DISCLAIMER: This book is meant as a study guide or aide for the original book by Craig Whitlock, and is not in any anyway meant to replace it or be conflicted with it. The Afghanistan Papers is a shocking and ground investigative account of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the American populace about the war in Afghanistan. The US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had massive public support, and the were straightforward and clear: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. But soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. This book summarizes the account that will supercharge a long overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered, with America deserting Afghanistan, the President Ashraf Ghani absconding and the Taliban taking over the country. This summary presents a general overview, critical analysis and takeaways of how it all started, how Afghanistan got to its current state, the politics and deceptions involved, and the future of the country with the Taliban in power. Click the BUY button now to enjoy.
Summary Of Craig Whitlock The Washington Post S The Afghanistan Papers
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-04-17T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Craig Whitlock The Washington Post S The Afghanistan Papers written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-17T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 2002, President George W. Bush ordered the U. S. military to go to war in Afghanistan to retaliate for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,977 people. The war transformed Bush’s political standing. Although he barely won the presidency in the disputed 2000 election, polls showed 75 percent of Americans now approved of his job performance. #2 When the war began, it was clear and narrow: to defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks. However, as the years went on, and the Taliban were overthrown, the mission became much more difficult to define. #3 The United States went to war with Afghanistan without knowing why, or what they were trying to achieve. They just knew they wanted to get rid of al-Qaeda, and the Taliban quickly became secondary. #4 The Bush administration changed its goals and objectives soon after it began bombing Afghanistan in October 2001. The secret six-page document called for the elimination of al-Qaeda and the termination of Taliban rule, but listed few concrete objectives beyond that.
The American War In Afghanistan
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Author : Carter Malkasian
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-15
The American War In Afghanistan written by Carter Malkasian and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with History categories.
A New York Times Notable Book Winner of 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon but only after a stay of nearly two decades. In The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian provides the first comprehensive history of the entire conflict. Malkasian is both a leading academic authority on the subject and an experienced practitioner, having spent nearly two years working in the Afghan countryside and going on to serve as the senior advisor to General Joseph Dunford, the US military commander in Afghanistan and later the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Drawing from a deep well of local knowledge, understanding of Pashto, and review of primary source documents, Malkasian moves through the war's multiple phases: the 2001 invasion and after; the light American footprint during the 2003 Iraq invasion; the resurgence of the Taliban in 2006, the Obama-era surge, and the various resets in strategy and force allocations that occurred from 2011 onward, culminating in the 2018-2020 peace talks. Malkasian lived through much of it, and draws from his own experiences to provide a unique vantage point on the war. Today, the Taliban is the most powerful faction, and sees victory as probable. The ultimate outcome after America leaves is inherently unpredictable given the multitude of actors there, but one thing is sure: the war did not go as America had hoped. Although the al-Qa'eda leader Osama bin Laden was killed and no major attack on the American homeland was carried out after 2001, the United States was unable to end the violence or hand off the war to the Afghan authorities, which could not survive without US military backing. The American War in Afghanistan explains why the war had such a disappointing outcome. Wise and all-encompassing, The American War in Afghanistan provides a truly vivid portrait of the conflict in all of its phases that will remain the authoritative account for years to come.
The Afghanistan Papers
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Afghanistan Papers written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Afghanistan
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Author : Michael J. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Nova Snova
Release Date : 2021
Afghanistan written by Michael J. Wilson and has been published by Nova Snova this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Afghan War, 2001-2021 categories.
The United States has been in Afghanistan for almost 19 years. It is the longest war in the history of the United States. The mission of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has evolved considerably since 2001, when the United States initiated military action against Al Qaeda and the Taliban government that protected the group in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The United States needs to decide whether to continue America's longest war and what the mission in Afghanistan is today.
Little America
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Author : Rajiv Chandrasekaran
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Little America written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with History categories.
The author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize) now gives us the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the struggle between President Obama and the US military to remake Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
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Author : Martin Ewans
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Afghanistan written by Martin Ewans and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Afghanistan categories.
Reviews the emergence and fall of the Taliban, their ideology and their place within Islam, and examines Afghanistan's relevance to issues relating to Islamic extremism, the international drugs trade and international terrorism.