Abstract
Critics of the Afghan war have claimed it was always unwinnable. This article argues the war was unwinnable the way it was fought and posits an alternative based on the Afghan way of war and the US approach to counterinsurgency in El Salvador during the final decade of the Cold War. Respecting the political and military dictates of strategy could have made America’s longest foreign war unnecessary and is a warning for the wars we will fight in the future.
First Page
7
Last Page
22
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.55540/0031-1723.3088
Recommended Citation
Todd Greentree, "What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?," Parameters 51, no. 4 (2021): 7-22, doi:10.55540/0031-1723.3088.
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