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03186aam a2200373 i 4500 001 3B11C662FC1D11E7842A9F4C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180118010011 008 170807s2017 nbuabf b 001 0deng 010 $a 2017017416 020 $a 1612349544 020 $a 9781612349541 035 $a (OCoLC)983387207 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d DLC $d OCLCO $d HRF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-af--- 050 00 $a DS371.413 $b .G754 2017 082 00 $a 958.104/7 $2 23 100 1 $a Grindle, Douglas, $e author. 245 10 $a How we won & lost the war in Afghanistan : $b two years in the Pashtun homeland / $c Douglas Grindle. 246 3 $a How we won and lost the war in Afghanistan 264 1 $a [Lincoln] : $b Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xx, 250 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed to materialize and the United States headed for the exit. By placing the reader at the heart of the American counterinsurgency effort, Grindle reveals little-known incidents, including the failure of expensive aid programs to target local needs, the slow throttling of local government as official funds failed to reach the districts, and the United States' inexplicable failure to empower the Afghan local officials even after they succeeded in bringing the people onto their side. Grindle presents the side of the hard-working Afghans who won the war and expresses what they really thought of the U.S. military and its decisions. Written by a former field officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, this story of dashed hopes and missed opportunities details how America's desire to leave the war behind ultimately overshadowed its desire to sustain victory."--Goodreads.com. 600 10 $a Grindle, Douglas, 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $v Personal narratives, American. 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $x Journalists. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Grindle, Douglas, author. $t How we won and lost the war in Afghanistan $d Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2017 $z 9781612349916 $w (DLC) 2017037656 941 $a 1 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20180118010100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3B11C662FC1D11E7842A9F4C97128E48 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search