Our latest longest war
Subtitle: losing hearts and minds in Afghanistan
By: edited by Lieutenant Colonel Aaron B. O'Connell, USMC
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780226265650
Subjects: Afghan War, 2001-
Description: "Our Latest Longest War is a chronicle of how, why, and in what ways the war in Afghanistan failed. Edited by historian and Marine lieutenant colonel Aaron B. O'Connell, the essays collected here represent nine different perspectives on the war--all from veterans of the conflict, both American and Afghan."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Washington Goes to War; title: US Strategy in Afghanistan: A Tragedy in Five Acts; title: In Our Own Image: Training the Afghan National Security Forces; title: The Impact of Culture on Policing in Afghanistan; title: Building and Undermining Legitimacy: Reconstruction and Development in Afghanistan; title: Rule of Law and Governance in Afghanistan, 2001-2014; title: Liberalism Does Its Thing; title: Organizing like the Enemy: Special Operations Forces, Afghan Culture, and Village Stability Operations; title: Leaving Afghanistan.