A vulcan's tale : how the Bush administration mismanaged the reconstruction of Afghanistan /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?