Afghan lessons : culture, diplomacy, and counterinsurgency / Fernando Gentilini ; translated by Angela Arnone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gentilini, Fernando.

Series:

Brookings-SSPA series on public administration

Standardized Title:

Libero a Kabul. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Gentilini, Fernando.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Travel.

Afghanistan--Description and travel.

Afghanistan.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Afghanistan.

Gentilini, Fernando--Travel--Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

xiii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2013]

Contents:

Foreword by Richard Cooper

Preface

1. How I ended up in Afghanistan, February-July 2008

2. Signals, 1968, 1979, 2001, 2007

3. Dubai, Terminal 2, July 13, 2008

4. Kabul

5. A small travel library , I

6. The first steps

7. "What? They've surrounded Kabul?"

8. Winning

9. The neo-Taliban

10. A world of advice from a princess

11. "The insubstantial state"

12. Arg

13. Civilian casualties, I

14. What there was, what there should have been

15. To coordinate

or to be coordinated

16. A small travel library, II

17. ISAF

18. Khyber, 1842, 1878, 1919, 1928

19. Indian holiday

20. Snow

21. Clear, hold, and build

22. Civilian casualties, II

23. Obama and Af-Pak, March 29, 2009

24. Awkward neighbors

25. A small travel library, III

26. A dream

27. Karzai

28. Bird's-eye views

29. Kandahar

30. COIN

the counterinsurgency manual

31. Civilian casualties, III

32. Shia family law

33. Women

34. A small travel library, IV

35. Death in August

36. The presidential elections

37. A way to reconciliation

38. The future of Af-Pak

39. Leaving Kabul, February 2010

Epilogue

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815724230

0815724233

OCLC:

823897524