10 Books That Matter: POGO’s 2013 Winter Reading List

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The War Within the War for Afghanistan

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

“When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, Washington Post corespondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani malfeasance but by infighting and incompetence within the American government: a war cabinet arrested by vicious bickering among top national security aides; diplomats and aid workers who failed to deliver on their grand promises; generals who dispatched troops to the wrong places; and headstrong military leaders who sought a far more expansive campaign than the White House wanted. Through their bungling and quarreling, they wound up squandering the first year of the surge.” – Knopf, June 2012

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