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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zakheim, Dov S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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?