Obama's Operational Failures of the War in Afghanistan
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Obama's Operational Failures of the War in Afghanistan
Commonwealth Club - SF Club Office
Author Rajiv Chandrasekaran is one of the world’s foremost reporters on the war and nation-building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. His new book, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, gives us a startling, behind-the-scenes account of the struggle between President Obama and the military to reconstruct Afghanistan. Chandrasekaran, senior correspondent for The Washington Post and a political pundit for CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, describes the disillusioned diplomats, frustrated soldiers, and headstrong officers that have come to define the process of pumping American money and soldiers into Afghan nation-building. Come hear this expert’s first-hand account of one of the most complex and formative events of the 21st century.
Commonwealth Club - SF Club Office
Author Rajiv Chandrasekaran is one of the world’s foremost reporters on the war and nation-building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. His new book, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, gives us a startling, behind-the-scenes account of the struggle between President Obama and the military to reconstruct Afghanistan. Chandrasekaran, senior correspondent for The Washington Post and a political pundit for CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, describes the disillusioned diplomats, frustrated soldiers, and headstrong officers that have come to define the process of pumping American money and soldiers into Afghan nation-building. Come hear this expert’s first-hand account of one of the most complex and formative events of the 21st century.