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020 $a9781616146030 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aWissing, Douglas A.
245 10 $aFunding the enemy :$bhow US taxpayers bankroll the Taliban /$cDouglas A. Wissing.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2012.
300 $a396 p. :$bcol. ill., map ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTimeline of key events in Afghanistan War -- Outsourcing and incoming, 2001 -- True peace, 2002 -- The creeping mission : development and the military -- Making some arrangements : the United States, opium, and the Afghans -- Loss of focus -- All together : the culture of corruption -- The neo-Taliban : a learning organization -- Housecats of Kabul -- The afterthought war : zigzag strategies -- The broken agency : USAID -- The COIN flip -- The realization -- They get that : agricultural development in Afghanistan -- Change-management strategy -- The complexities -- The perfect war -- The way.
520 $aExplores the mismanagement of American aid to Afghanistan and how these taxpayer dollars have wound up in the coffers of the Taliban, effectively losing the war for the United States.
610 20 $aTaliban$xFinance.
650 0 $aPostwar reconstruction$zAfghanistan.
650 0 $aEconomic assistance, American$zAfghanistan.
650 0 $aEconomic development$xFinance$zAfghanistan.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zAfghanistan.
651 0 $aAfghanistan$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
852 00 $bleh$hDS371.4$i.W57 2012