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The trillion dollar war : the U.S. effort to rebuild Afghanistan, 1999-2021 / Abid Amiri.

by Amiri, Abid, 1989- author.

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Quantico, Virginia : Marine Corps University Press, 2021.

Economic assistance, American -- Afghanistan.

Economic development -- Afghanistan.

Nation-building -- Afghanistan.

Nation-building -- United States.

Waste in government spending -- United States.

Corruption -- Afghanistan.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Electronic Resource

https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo174263

9781737040569 (paperback)

1737040565 (paperback)

xxiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

The European recovery program -- The Marshall Plan 2.0: Afghanistan -- Development projects: the security sector reform program -- The Obama doctrine: the counterinsurgency strategy -- The cost of war -- Legitimizing the Taliban: the surrender-to-the-Taliban strategy.

"What if the U.S. war on terror was fought not by the military but by educating the Afghan youth, and what if the trillion dollars had been spent instead on economic development in Afghanistan rather than on bombs and fighter jets? The Trillion Dollar War helps explain the United States' efforts to rebuild Afghanistan during the last 20 years. The book outlines the successes and failures of both Afghans and Americans in this endeavor. In addition, it provides an in-depth analysis of the cost of American's longest war, and it asks whether spending more on education and infrastructure than on weapons of war would have resulted in a different outcome."-- Provided by publisher.

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