| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"Presents details behind the Bush administration's policies and actions in Afghanistan and Iraq from the point of view of a high-level budget official in the U.S. Defense Department involved in the day-to-day management of funding Afghan reconstruction beginning in 2002"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Nation building and the 2000 campaign -- Musical chairs: positioning for a top job on the new team -- Transition to government -- "From now on, we will only request a supplemental in wartime" -- 9/11 -- Funding Operation Enduring Freedom -- Pakistan -- Passing the tin cup -- The cost of war -- Gearing up for Iraq, losing focus on Afghanistan -- Coordinator for Afghanistan reconstruction -- War fever -- A second war, the first unfinished -- On the road: New York, Latin America, Iraq, Poland, Spain -- "I am the custodian of the Iraqi people" -- Engaging Syria -- Defense contractors -- "Afghanistan, we haven't forgotten you" -- Epilogue: where do we go from here? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- United States -- Finance -- Decision making.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009 -- Decision making.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
2001-2009 |
| Subject |
Decision making. |
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Nation-building -- Afghanistan.
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Nation-building. |
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Afghanistan. |
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Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan.
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Postwar reconstruction. |
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Postwar reconstruction -- Government policy -- United States.
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Government policy. |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan -- Foreign relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zakheim, Dov S. Vulcan's tale. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2011 9780815721222 (DLC) 2011007620 (OCoLC)696099423 |
| ISBN |
9780815721260 (electronic book) |
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0815721269 (electronic book) |
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1283134543 |
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9781283134545 |
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9780815721222 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0815721226 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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