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• W1486170143 abstract "War, Will, and Warlords: Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2011 By Robert M. Cassidy Quantico: Marine Corps University Press, 2012 270 pages Free download [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although war in Afghanistan has lasted appreciably longer than America's war in Iraq, shorter conflict has generated both more and better literature and analysis. There are a stack of books on Iraq that will bear test of time, from George Packer's The Assassins' Gate and Tom Ricks's Fiasco to Michael Gordon and Mick Trainor's comprehensive trilogy on war. The longer Afghan campaign can claim no such body of work is likely to last. Carter Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser is a sparkling depiction of conflict in a province, but there is as yet no overview of war as a whole that will endure. Army Colonel Bob Cassidy has attempted to fill gap with War, Will, and Warlords. Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2011, published by Marine Corps University Press and freely available on internet. Bob is well placed to do so, having written two previous books on counterinsurgency and spending a year working at International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Joint Command, which coordinates campaign at operational level of war. The book meets some of need for a comprehensive analysis of Afghan conflict, but is hobbled by two shortcomings--one unavoidable, one not--that leave field at least partially open for a great campaign history. The unavoidable shortcoming of War, Will, and Warlords comes in its subtitle; book only carries reader through 2011, concentrating most heavily on fighting since Obama administration prioritized Afghanistan over Iraq in 2009. While Cassidy is correct in noting that before late 2009, the war in Afghanistan lacked both a comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign plan and an operational-level headquarters to orchestrate campaign, Afghan campaign has become more interesting, not less, since he completed his analysis in 2011, and trend is likely to continue. Although Afghan endgame cannot yet be written, president decided to draw down American troop commitment and turn over responsibility for continuing counterinsurgency campaign to Afghan security forces by end of 2014. This is high adventure; while Anbar Awakening and Surge broke back of insurgency in Iraq before American drawdown there, Pashtun insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan is likely to remain a significant threat to Afghan governance when American combat role ends. Cassidy deserves credit for attempting to capture history of war up until 2011, but climactic acts of this play have not yet happened. The avoidable shortcoming is Dr. Cassidy's writing style. Bob is an old friend and former partner in crime at US Military Academy, where we taught international relations together at Department of Social Sciences; from that time through today, Bob has never been able to resist inserting most complicated possible word in his writing. Thus, on second page of his Preface, Bob explains that his book posits that explanations for catalysts of these two insurgencies relate to a paucity of analysis and resources that exacerbated or created grievances among local populations, excessive or inappropriate applications of lethal force, and ill-prepared approaches to information operations that failed to integrate information narratives with use of military force. …" @default.
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