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Article Summary: America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump
Author: *Sharifullah Dorani Original Publication: Political Reflections Date of Publication: January/February 2019 Photo credit: Original book cover Overview In this article, Sharifullah Dorani offers a concise and authoritative summary of his book America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump, originally published by I.B. Tauris (and later by…
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Why Karzai Clashed with the US and NATO and What It Meant
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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The Role of NATO in America’s Afghanistan War
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…