The Afghanistan question and the reset in U.S.-Russian relations / (Record no. 78308)

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020 ## - ISBN
ISBN 9781584875130
020 ## - ISBN
ISBN 1584875135
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Language code eng
100 1# - AUTHOR
Personal name Krickus, Richard J
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Title The Afghanistan question and the reset in U.S.-Russian relations /
Author, etc Richard J. Krickus
246 3# - ALTERNATIVE TITLE
Title Afghanistan question and the reset in US-Russian relations
246 3# - ALTERNATIVE TITLE
Title Afghanistan question and the reset in United States-Russian relations
260 ## - PUBLICATION DATA
Place of publication Carlisle, PA :
Publisher Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College,
Year [2011]
300 ## - PAGES ETC
Pages xii, 159 p. ;
Dimensions 23 cm
490 1# - SERIES TITLE
Series title Letort paper ;
Number [no. 52]
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General note "October 2011." ; SIP1311
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
About the authors Includes bibliographical references.
505 0# - CONTENTS
Contents Summary -- Introduction -- The American skeptics -- Russian skeptics -- The American rationale -- The Russian rationale -- The study's objectives -- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The decision to invade -- Escalation -- Bringing the Red Army home -- What was happening? -- The U.S. reaction -- The end -- The failure to create a stable post-Soviet government and civil war. The United Nations proposal -- Why the proposal failed -- Washington's and Moscow's failure -- The Taliban and Osama bin Laden. The origins of the Taliban -- Osama bin Laden -- The United States acknowledges bin Laden as a threat -- 9/11 and war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The September 2001 terrorist attacks -- Routing the jihadists -- The Karzai government -- Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda : an assessment -- A partial victory -- Three scenarios. The existing situation or plan A : an unstable but viable Afghanistan through COIN -- The insurgency -- The Karzai government -- Security forces -- The civilian-economic component -- Declining support for the war within the United States -- Pakistan -- Plan B : partition -- A Taliban victory -- The global jihadists prevail -- The Taliban return to power with a national agenda -- The Russian response -- Countering Afghan narcotics -- The struggle over Manas -- The northern distribution network -- Central Asia and the North Caucasus -- Concluding remarks and recommendations. Identifying the enemy : a civil war within Islam -- Making room for the rest -- The American malaise -- Sticking to the 2014 Afghanistan exit schedule -- Preparing for Bonn II -- Plan B : partition -- Preparing for the worst case scenario (Plan C) : a Taliban victory -- Confronting Pakistan -- The time has come to reduce our profile in the Middle East -- Sustaining and enlarging security cooperation with Russia.
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Summary, etc The ability of the United States and Russia to cooperate in Afghanistan represents a solid test of their reset in relations. The author provides the historical background to the Afghanistan Question and assesses current events in the Afghan war with three objectives in mind: 1) to determine whether Russian-American cooperation in Afghanistan has been successful; 2) to identify and evaluate the successes and failures of the counterinsurgency strategy as the transition from U.S. to Afghanistan authority gains traction in the 2011-14 time frame; and 3) to provide conclusions and recommendations bearing on developments in Afghanistan.
651 #0 - KEYWORD/GEOGRAPHIC
Geographic keyword Afghanistan
Subdivision internal politics
651 #0 - KEYWORD/GEOGRAPHIC
Geographic keyword Afghanistan
Subdivision armed conflicts
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Geographic keyword USA
Subdivision foreign policy
Geographic subdivision Russia
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Institution Army War College.
Subordinate unit Strategic Studies Institute
830 #0 - AUTHORIZED SERIES TITLE
Authorized title Letort papers ;
Volume number/sequential designation [no. 52]
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Classification part 327ser Strategic
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URI http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1089
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