US military campaign: Losing it in Afghanistan
During the Vietnam war, US secretary of defence Robert McNamara was so cocksure of an American victory that he propagated a ‘strategic’ bottom line: “Two plus two is four, and we will win the war” . The trouble with this line was that, as one CIA official once put it, McNamara could never define what ‘two’ represented. Parallels are increasingly being drawn between the current US military campaign in Afghanistan and the one in Vietnam, but this time, the Americans could be said to have had a handle on the objectives. For a brief period, from the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, ‘nation building’ was an oftheard refrain. It no longer is. “I’m not doing long-term nation-building . I am not…
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US military campaign: Losing it in Afghanistan
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