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Book/Printed Material Disjointed ways, disunified means : learning from America's struggle to build an Afghan nation Learning from America's struggle to build an Afghan nation

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Title

  • Disjointed ways, disunified means : learning from America's struggle to build an Afghan nation

Other Title

  • Learning from America's struggle to build an Afghan nation

Summary

  • "Remarkably ambitious in its audacity and scope, NATO's irregular warfare and nation-building mission in Afghanistan has struggled to meet its nonmilitary objectives by most tangible measures. Put directly, the Alliance and its partners have fallen short of achieving the results needed to create a stable, secure, democratic, and self-sustaining Afghan nation, a particularly daunting proposition given Afghanistan's history and culture, the region's contemporary circumstances, and the fact that no such country has existed there before. Furthermore, given the central nature of U.S. contributions to this NATO mission, these shortfalls also serve as an indicator of a serious American problem as well. Specifically, inconsistencies and a lack of coherence in the U.S. Government's strategic planning processes and products, as well as fundamental flaws in the U.S. Government's structures and systems for coordinating and integrating the efforts of its various agencies, are largely responsible for this adverse and dangerous situation. This book explores these strategic and interagency shortfalls, while proposing potential reforms that would enable the United States to achieve the strategic coherence and genuine unity of effort that will be needed in an era of constrained resources and emerging new threats."--Publisher's website

Names

  • Irwin, Lewis G.
  • Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

Created / Published

  • Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2012]

Contents

  • Introduction -- Part I. The challenge of Afghanistan. Defining the Afghan problem -- The scope of irregular warfare and "nation-building" -- Evolving U.S. strategic interests, options, and risks -- Part II. Disjointed policies and organizational structures. Disjointed policies, strategies, and objectives -- A clash of organizational cultures and resources -- Disunified interagency structures, processes, and effort -- The unsurprising and uneven results -- Part III. Potential solutions. Commonly proposed solutions and faulty assumptions -- Essential elements of any feasible and effective solution -- A way ahead : the NSC, Combatant Commands, and USRADCOM -- A brief epilogue : contemplating the context and future of "nation-building".

Headings

  • -  Interagency coordination--United States
  • -  Nation-building--Afghanistan

Notes

  • -  "May 2012."
  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-411).
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xxiv, 413 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DS371.4

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023692799

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Chicago citation style:

Irwin, Lewis G, and U.S.. Strategic Studies Institute Army War College. Disjointed ways, disunified means: learning from America's struggle to build an Afghan nation. [Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2012] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692799/.

APA citation style:

Irwin, L. G. & Army War College, U. S. S. S. I. (2012) Disjointed ways, disunified means: learning from America's struggle to build an Afghan nation. [Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692799/.

MLA citation style:

Irwin, Lewis G, and U.S.. Strategic Studies Institute Army War College. Disjointed ways, disunified means: learning from America's struggle to build an Afghan nation. [Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2012] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692799/>.