The Afghanistan question and the reset in U.S.-Russian relations / Richard J. Krickus
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Krickus, Richard J. (författare)
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- Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute. (utgivare)
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Alternativt namn: Army War College. Strategic Studies Institute
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Alternativt namn: Strategic Studies Institute
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Alternativt namn: SSI
- ISBN 978-1-58487-513-0
- Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2011]
- Engelska xii, 159 p.
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Serie: Letort paper ; [no. 52]
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- Summary -- Introduction -- The American skeptics -- Russian skeptics -- The American rationale -- The Russian rationale -- The study's objectives -- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The decision to invade -- Escalation -- Bringing the Red Army home -- What was happening? -- The U.S. reaction -- The end -- The failure to create a stable post-Soviet government and civil war. The United Nations proposal -- Why the proposal failed -- Washington's and Moscow's failure -- The Taliban and Osama bin Laden. The origins of the Taliban -- Osama bin Laden -- The United States acknowledges bin Laden as a threat -- 9/11 and war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The September 2001 terrorist attacks -- Routing the jihadists -- The Karzai government -- Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda : an assessment -- A partial victory -- Three scenarios. The existing situation or plan A : an unstable but viable Afghanistan through COIN -- The insurgency -- The Karzai government -- Security forces -- The civilian-economic component -- Declining support for the war within the United States -- Pakistan -- Plan B : partition -- A Taliban victory -- The global jihadists prevail -- The Taliban return to power with a national agenda -- The Russian response -- Countering Afghan narcotics -- The struggle over Manas -- The northern distribution network -- Central Asia and the North Caucasus -- Concluding remarks and recommendations. Identifying the enemy : a civil war within Islam -- Making room for the rest -- The American malaise -- Sticking to the 2014 Afghanistan exit schedule -- Preparing for Bonn II -- Plan B : partition -- Preparing for the worst case scenario (Plan C) : a Taliban victory -- Confronting Pakistan -- The time has come to reduce our profile in the Middle East -- Sustaining and enlarging security cooperation with Russia.
- The ability of the United States and Russia to cooperate in Afghanistan represents a solid test of their reset in relations. The author provides the historical background to the Afghanistan Question and assesses current events in the Afghan war with three objectives in mind: 1) to determine whether Russian-American cooperation in Afghanistan has been successful; 2) to identify and evaluate the successes and failures of the counterinsurgency strategy as the transition from U.S. to Afghanistan authority gains traction in the 2011-14 time frame; and 3) to provide conclusions and recommendations bearing on developments in Afghanistan.
Ämnesord
- Kriget i Afghanistan 2001- (sao)
- Afghanistankriget 1979-1989 (sao)
- Afghan War, 2001- (LCSH)
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Russia (Federation) (LCSH)
- Förenta staterna -- relationer -- Ryssland (sao)
- Ryssland -- relationer -- Förenta staterna (sao)
- Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 20th century. (LCSH)
- Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century. (LCSH)
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation) (LCSH)
- Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- United States. (LCSH)
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- DS371.412 (LCC)
- 327.7304709/05 (DDC)
- 7,41 (ssgn)
- Ob (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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