Governance in Afghanistan : looking ahead to what we leave behind / Colin Cookman and Caroline Wadhams.
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TextLanguage: Publication details: [Washington DC] : Center for American Progress, 2010.Description: 44 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - Pamphlet DS 371.4 .C66 2010/ + /PDF/(0.98MB)
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May 2010.
Center for American Progress—at head of title.
Center for American Progress
governance in Afghanistan—running caption.
Contents: [01]. Introduction and summary—[02]. Afghan government structure—[03]. Funding a sustainable state—[04]. International aid delivery methods and consequences for governance—[05]. Conclusions and issues for policymakers—[06]. Endnotes—[07]. About the authors and acknowledgments.
Summary: The United States' top strategic objective in Afghanistan over the past nine years has been defeating the Al Qaeda network. Strengthening and sustaining the Afghan government was a second-tier priority at best that was ranked far behind military operations, and when the United States took any efforts to strengthen government they were done only as a means of dismantling, disrupting, and defeating the Al Qaeda terror network—(p. 1).