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6 Ways the U.S. Failed in Afghanistan: Speed Read of ‘Little America’

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Why did the 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan fail? A nightmarish new book has devastating revelations.

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When Washington Post senior correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran went to Afghanistan to report on the troop surge ordered by President Obama in 2009, he found vicious bickering in the leadership that sabotaged a peace deal, generals who dispatched troops to the wrong places, and rogue commanders who killed civilians and cost...

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