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A vulcan's tale : how the Bush administration mismanaged the reconstruction of Afghanistan / Dov S. Zakheim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zakheim, Dov S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Finance--United States--Decision making.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Economic aspects--United States.
- Nation-building--Afghanistan.
- Nation-building.
- Postwar reconstruction--Afghanistan.
- Postwar reconstruction.
- Postwar reconstruction--Government policy--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009--Decision making.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--Foreign relations--United States.
- Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 publisher.
- Contents:
- 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?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613134547
- 9781283134545
- 1283134543
- 9780815721260
- 0815721269
- OCLC:
- 727649505
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