Author: Steven Simon, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
July/August 2009
Foreign Affairs
Two new books offer insightful analyses of how to succeed in Afghanistan. But the sheer difficulty of the task points to the need for an alternative strategy -- one that defends U.S. interests without trying to rebuild a shattered country.
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