Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign
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Sherard Cowper-Coles. Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign
Sherard Cowper-Coles. Cables from Kabul
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Map of Afghanistan
Map of Kabul
Tribute to the Fallen
Preface
PART I. BEGINNINGS
Chapter 1. An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse
Chapter 2. First Impressions
Chapter 3. Helmandshire
Chapter 4 ‘A Marathon Rather Than A Sprint’
Chapter 5. Breather Break
PART II. HOPE OVER EXPERIENCE
Chapter 6. A King’s Funeral
Chapter 7. The Spreading Virus
Chapter 8. The Great Game – Round Four
Chapter 9. Hooked on Drugs
Chapter 10. Coping in Kabul
Chapter 11. Highland Fling: Karzai in Scotland
Chapter 12. Mr Brown Comes to Town
PART III. AGAINST AN EBBING TIDE
Chapter 13. Reversal of Fortune
Chapter 14 ‘We Are Winning – Only It Doesn’t Feel Like It’
Chapter 15. The Karzai Conundrum
Chapter 16. Cracking On in Helmand
Chapter 17. Afghan Attitudes
Chapter 18. Waiting for Obama
PART IV. TACTICS WITHOUT STRATEGY: ONE LAST HEAVE
Chapter 19. Biden and Beyond
Chapter 20. Au Revoir Afghanistan
Chapter 21. Richard Holbrooke’s Flying Circus
Chapter 22. Where’s Dick?
PART V. RECESSIONAL
Chapter 23. Embassy Encore
Chapter 24. Untying the Knot
Chapter 25. Three Lessons Learned
Chapter 26. Back to the Future
Photographic Insert
Endpapers
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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In memory of
Richard Holbrooke,
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18 Waiting for Obama
Part IV: Tactics Without Strategy: One Last Heave
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