Book contents
- Choosing Defeat
- Choosing Defeat
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dramatis Personae
- Abbreviations
- 1 Myths and Mysteries of War in Afghanistan
- 2 2001
- 3 2002–2003
- 4 2003–2005
- 5 2006
- 6 2007–2008
- 7 2009
- 8 2009
- 9 2010–2011
- 10 2010–2014
- 11 2012–2014
- 12 2015–2016
- 13 2017–2018
- 14 2018–2020
- 15 2021
- 16 Why Did We Lose?
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
7 - 2009
False Start
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Book contents
- Choosing Defeat
- Choosing Defeat
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dramatis Personae
- Abbreviations
- 1 Myths and Mysteries of War in Afghanistan
- 2 2001
- 3 2002–2003
- 4 2003–2005
- 5 2006
- 6 2007–2008
- 7 2009
- 8 2009
- 9 2010–2011
- 10 2010–2014
- 11 2012–2014
- 12 2015–2016
- 13 2017–2018
- 14 2018–2020
- 15 2021
- 16 Why Did We Lose?
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
Summary
In 2008, Senator Barack Obama promised to win the war in Afghanistan.Yet the story of 2009 is the story of his administration losing hope in Afghanistan. While Obama approved a new strategy in the early months of his presidency, over the course of the year it became apparent he was unwilling to pay the price his new strategy required in the face of mounting challenges. Obama then faced the need to develop an Afghanistan strategy he was prepared to execute, which turned out to be different from the vision he initially promised.
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- Choosing DefeatThe Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan, pp. 197 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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