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Carter Malkasian’s Review of America in Afghanistan
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Reviewer: Carter Malkasian Original Publication: The Strategy Bridge Publication Date: 21 October 2019 Photo Credit: Zarif Amir/ Pexels External Review This review of America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump by Sharifullah Dorani was originally published as an independent assessment. A concise excerpt and summary are presented…
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BRASS’s Review of America in Afghanistan
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Reviewer: David Dwyer Original Publication: BRASS Publication Date: 24 January 2019 Photo Credit: Book Cover designed by Ian Ross External Review This review of America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump by Sharifullah Dorani was originally published by BRASS. A concise excerpt and summary are presented here…
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The Palestine Chronicle’s Review of America in Afghanistan
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Reviewer: Jim Miles Original Publication: The Palestine Chronicle Publication Date: 10 May 2019 Photo Credit: Alejandra/Pixabay External Review This review of America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump by Sharifullah Dorani was originally published in The Palestine Chronicle. A short excerpt and summary are presented here for…
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The Rest Journal’s Review of America in Afghanistan
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Reviewer: Professor Rahman Dağ Original Publication: The Rest: Journal of Politics and Development Publication Date: 21 February 2020 Photo Credit: Mohammad Kazim/Pexels External Review This review of America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump by Sharifullah Dorani was originally published in The Rest: Journal of Politics and…
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LSE’s Review of America in Afghanistan
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Reviewer: Berkay Gülen Journal: LSE Review of Books Publication Date: 20 August 2019 Photo credit: Pexels External Review This review of America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump by Sharifullah Dorani was originally published in the LSE Review of Books. A short excerpt and summary are presented…
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The Groupthink Model: The Impact of Groupthink on Decision Making — Case Study: The Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
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Author: Dr Sharifullah Dorani Originally published by: CESRAN International Photo credit: Mikecook1 / Pixabay External Publication This article was originally published by CESRAN International. A short summary is provided here for readers of this website. Summary This short essay explores the enduring relevance of the Groupthink Model for understanding how small-group dynamics shape foreign…
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Why Karzai Clashed with the US and NATO and What It Meant
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Photo Credit: Hamid Karzai portrait (2002) – Public domain (USAID/US federal government) By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘After our assault on Kabul, the United States had brought Karzai and his advisors back and installed them in power―functional expatriates we hoped would serve as the Afghan face of a new, nonmilitant order…[T]hey did their best to…
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After Evaluations, Bush Shifts Afghanistan ‘CT’ Strategy to COIN
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘Afghanistan ‘is slipping toward failure. The Taliban is back, violence is up, drug production is booming and the Afghans are losing faith in their government. All the legs of strategy ─ security, counternarcotics efforts, reconstruction and governance ─ have gone wobbly. If we should have had a surge anywhere, it…
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Why President Bush’s Light Footprint Strategy Failed in Afghanistan
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘If some later contended that we never had a plan for full-fledged nation building or that we under-resource such a plan, they were certainly correct. We didn’t go there to try to bring prosperity to every corner of Afghanistan. I believe…that such a goal would have amounted to a fool’s…
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The Role of NATO in America’s Afghanistan War
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction After ‘liberating Afghanistan’, the George W Bush Administration assumed that ‘the coalition of the willing’, and later North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), would shoulder responsibility[1] for the post-Taliban Afghanistan, as the US military role was assumed to win wars, not engage in peacekeeping, policing or building nations. This article…