Choosing Defeat

The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

A truly unique all-embracing narrative of the American war in Afghanistan from the own words of its architects. Choosing Defeat takes an unparalleled inside look at America's longest war, pulling back the curtain on the inner deliberations behind the scenes. The author combines his own extensive experience in the Army, the CIA, and the White House, with interviews from policymakers within the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, to produce a groundbreaking study of how American leaders make wartime decisions. Transporting you inside the White House Situation Room, every key strategic debate over twenty years - from the immediate aftermath of 9/11, to Obama's surge and withdrawal, to Trump's negotiations with the Taliban, and Biden's final pullout is carefully reconstructed. Paul D. Miller identifies issues in US leadership, governance, military strategy, and policymaking that extend beyond the war in Afghanistan and highlight the existence of deeper problems in American foreign policy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-07
Mått:230 x 30 x 150 mm
Vikt:920 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:545
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009614375

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Paul D. Miller is Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University. He served as Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff; worked as an intelligence analyst for the CIA; and served as a military intelligence officer in the US Army. He is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and author of Just War and Ordered Liberty (Cambridge, 2021) and American Power and Liberal Order (2016).

Recensioner i media

'This is a remarkable and important book - erudite and detailed, yet pithy and provocative. As a soldier, intelligence analyst, policymaker, professor, and scholar, Paul D. Miller has certainly earned his right to write this book and offer his take on the history of America's Afghanistan experience. More, he has helped us understand what went so badly wrong there, even though Americans like him who served can take some solace that the war helped prevent another 9/11 despite its ultimate failure to achieve larger objectives.' Michael O'Hanlon, Phil Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy, the Brookings Institution, and author of To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution

Innehållsförteckning

1. Myths and mysteries of war in Afghanistan; 2. 2001: victory; 3. 2002–2003: neglect; 4. 2003–2005: refocus; 5. 2006: insurgency; 6. 2007–2008: counterinsurgency; 7. 2009: false start; 8. 2009: the hinge; 9. 2010–2011: surge; 10. 2010–2014: Negotiations; 11. 2012–2014: transition; 12. 2015–2016: Obama's forever war; 13. 2017–2018: Trump's forever war; 14. 2018–2020: Doha; 15. 2021: defeat; 16. Why did we lose?

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