A vulcan's tale
Subtitle: how the Bush administration mismanaged the reconstruction of Afghanistan
By: Dov S. Zakheim
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780815721222
Subjects: Decision making; Government policy; Finance; Afghan War, 2001-; Nation-building; Postwar reconstruction; Foreign relations
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nation building and the 2000 campaign; title: Musical chairs: positioning for a top job on the new team; title: Transition to government; title: "From now on, we will only request a supplemental in wartime"; title: 9/11; title: Funding Operation Enduring Freedom; title: Pakistan; title: Passing the tin cup; title: The cost of war; title: Gearing up for Iraq, losing focus on Afghanistan; title: Coordinator for Afghanistan reconstruction; title: War fever; title: A second war, the first unfinished; title: On the road: New York, Latin America, Iraq, Poland, Spain; title: "I am the custodian of the Iraqi people"; title: Engaging Syria; title: Defense contractors; title: "Afghanistan, we haven't forgotten you"; title: Epilogue: where do we go from here?.