Hubris, Self-Interest, and America's Failed War in Afghanistan
Subtitle: The Self-Sustaining Overreach
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781498506199
Subjects: Afghan war, 2001-; Postwar reconstruction; Democracy; Peace; United states, foreign relations, afghanistan; Afghanistan, foreign relations; Afghanistan, politics and government; United states, military policy
Description: "This book describes the conduct of the U.S.-led post-9/11 war6 in Afghanistan via a long-term historical perspective. It investigates the reasons behind Washington's entrapment in a self-sustaining overreach, emphasizing policy mistakes made in late 2001 and the contradictions associated with foreign-led democratization and state-building"--