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Little America The War Within the War for Afghanistan

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ISBN-10: 0307947041

ISBN-13: 9780307947048

Edition: N/A

Authors: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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From the award-winning author ofImperial Life in the Emerald City,a riveting, intimate account of America’s troubled war in Afghanistan.When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan,Washington Postcorrespondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani malfeasance but by infighting and incompetence within the American government: a war cabinet arrested by vicious bickering among top national security aides; diplomats and aid workers who failed to deliver on their grand promises; generals who dispatched troops to the wrong places; and headstrong military leaders who sought a far more expansive campaign than…    
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Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He has been the newspaper's bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia. He is the author or co-author of Little America, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, and For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us about Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice.

Map of Southern Afghanistan
Prologue
Grand Dreams
An Enchanting Time
Stop the Slide
Marineistan
The Wrong Man
The Road to Ruins
The Surge
Shattered Plans
Bleeding Ulcer
Search and Destroy
Deadwood
Burn Rate
Allies at War
Odd Man Out
A Bridge Too Far
Triage
The Boss of the Border
A Fresh Can of Whoop-ass
There Was No Escaping Him
My Heart Is Broken
What We Have Is Folly
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index