What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?/ Todd Greentree

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GREENTREE Todd

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TextPublication details: 2021-22Subject(s):

AFGHANISTAN -- US MILITARY -- COLD WAR -- DEFENSE AND SECURITY STUDIES COMMONS -- INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMMONS -- MILITARY AND VETERANS STUDIES COMMONS -- MILITARY HISTORY COMMONS -- MILITARY WAR AND PEACE COMMONS -- NATIONAL SECURITY LAW COMMONS -- PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMONS -- THE TERRORISM STUDIES COMMONS

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In: The US Army War College Quarterly Parameters Vol. 51, No.4, Winter 2021-22, pp.7-21 (83)Summary: Critics of the Afghan war have claimed it was always unwinnable. This article argues the war was unwinnable the way it was fought and posits an alternative based on the Afghan way of war and the US approach to counterinsurgency in El Salvador during the final decade of the Cold War. Respecting the political and military dictates of strategy could have made America's longest foreign war unnecessary and is a warning for the wars we will fight in the future.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Journal Articles	Mindef Library & Info Centre Journals	AFGHANISTAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Not for loan		66869.1001

Critics of the Afghan war have claimed it was always unwinnable. This article argues the war was unwinnable the way it was fought and posits an alternative based on the Afghan way of war and the US approach to counterinsurgency in El Salvador during the final decade of the Cold War. Respecting the political and military dictates of strategy could have made America's longest foreign war unnecessary and is a warning for the wars we will fight in the future.

AFGHAN, USA, MILITARY, POLITICS

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