US/AFGHANISTAN: Policy-making process evidences flaws

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  • Whither the Afghans?
  • Missing grand strategy
  • Political vs military objectives
  • Miscommunication
  • Divergent timetables
  • Micromanagement problem?
  • Strategy by analogy
  • Vietnam
  • 1989
  • The Iraq 'surge'

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