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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Foreign Terms
1. Introduction
2. Strategy and Strategic Goals
3. Insurgent Groups
4. Civilian Components
5. Local Government
6. Development and Reconstruction
7. Security
8. The Role of Provincial Reconstruction Teams
9. The Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
10. Nangarhar Case Study: Progress in COIN and Counternarcotics
11. The Rise of Radical Islam in the Border Areas
12. Analysis of the U.S. Engagement in RC-East
13. Conceptual and Strategic Considerations in RC-East
Annex I. The District Delivery Program (DDP) 2009-2010: A Case Study in Organizational Challenges
Annex II. Khost Province in 2004-2005: A Case Study in Operations along the Border with Pakistan
Annex III. Three Case Studies in Civil-Military Cooperation as a Function of Security, 2004-2005
Annex IV. Position of RC-East PRTs on the Civil-Military Spectrum, 2004-2005
Notes
Index
America was attacked from and went to war in Afghanistan in the first year of the twenty-first century. Nearly midway into the second decade Americans are winding down only their own participation; the war continues. With but a few exceptions, writings about the war have focused either at the policy level or on aspects of combat and the military. Americans are vaguely aware that civilians also served; particularly diplomats, aid workers, contractors, and civil servants from numerous cabinet departments, including Agriculture, Justice, Homeland Security, State, and others. But as to what these many civilians did, risked, and tried to accomplish few in the general public could say. When journalists or inspectors occasionally criticize, they often do so with no discussion of why decisions were made or with any understanding of either the challenges or reasons for action. This is not to argue against the view that many mistakes were made; they were. In general that is the story of all wars, particularly irregular wars fought in strange surroundings that need to be learned even as events demand decisions before learning can take root.
Against that background Robert Kemp’s work fills in many blank spots about the civilian side of civil-military cooperation in counterinsurgency. It is the personal account of a Foreign Service officer who was prepared to return several times to Afghanistan to serve his country. That in itself is a story of service that exemplifies many American diplomats and their civilian colleagues and is much too little appreciated by those who still hold a striped pants and teacup view of what it means to be a diplomat.
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Generalized Ethnic Divisions within Regional Command East and
Adjacent Pakistan
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