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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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Bureaucratic Politics and Belief Systems in the Bush Administration
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction The presidential candidate, George W. Bush, in 2000, was not someone who knew about the outside world, nor did he seem to be interested in it. He had barely travelled outside America, did not read about other countries, and knew no foreign leaders. During his election campaign, he did…
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The Policy Assumptions Behind Bush’s War on Terror
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘[T]he nature of the response [to 9/11] was also shaped by some deeply embedded assumptions and beliefs within the administration about foreign policy and the appropriate role of the military.’[1] Introduction The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks prompted the George W Bush administration to initiate the Global War on Terror…