(Download) "Afghanistan: "We Cannot Allow Ourselves to Fail"" by American Diplomacy * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Afghanistan: "We Cannot Allow Ourselves to Fail"
- Author : American Diplomacy
- Release Date : January 02, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Editor's Note: We are pleased to offer our readers this report on Afghanistan by retired Army General Barry McCaffrey, based on his visit there in late July. He finds the situation difficult and likely to get worse, with 2009 shaping up as "the year of decision." He identifies critical problems, including dysfunctional and corrupt local government, lack of unity of command, insufficient international support, limited Pakistani control of its frontier region, burgeoning narcotics production, and "crippling political restrictions" on the employment of many non-U.S. NATO forces. The "central effort to win the war," he believes, must focus on strengthening the Afghan security forces.--Ed. July 30, 2008