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This is an insightful analysis on what went wrong with the war in Afghanistan. Chandrasekaran argues that the war in Afghanistan was a failure because of a disconnect between the military and civilian officers, too many egos in the Situation Room, and poorly executed policy by the Department of State and USAID. Too many troops were sent to regions of little strategic value, government bureaucracy got in the way of good ideas being implemented, and the Obama administration failed to execute a lon
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