How we won & lost the war in Afghanistan : two years in the Pashtun homeland
Afghan War, 2001- Grindle, Douglas
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
2017
EISBN 9781612349930
Part I. Into Afghanistan.
The train-up.
KAF world.
Part II. Into Dand.
Settling in.
Ousting the Taliban.
Nazak's grand bargain.
Priming the economy.
Waiting to work.
Kick-starting the staff.
Outpost life.
Security holds.
Women's work.
Part III. Dand in the balance.
Stealing from women.
Still starved of money.
Corruption of many kinds.
Holding back the Taliban.
The economy misses.
Solutions made in Washington.
Dand in the balance.
Part IV. On to Maiwand.
Two districts.
Security failing in Maiwand.
Drugs, not jobs.
Epilogue.
The train-up.
KAF world.
Part II. Into Dand.
Settling in.
Ousting the Taliban.
Nazak's grand bargain.
Priming the economy.
Waiting to work.
Kick-starting the staff.
Outpost life.
Security holds.
Women's work.
Part III. Dand in the balance.
Stealing from women.
Still starved of money.
Corruption of many kinds.
Holding back the Taliban.
The economy misses.
Solutions made in Washington.
Dand in the balance.
Part IV. On to Maiwand.
Two districts.
Security failing in Maiwand.
Drugs, not jobs.
Epilogue.
