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<h1 id="pagetitle">The American War in Afghanistan: A History</h1>
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<h2>Carter Malkasian</h2>
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<p style="" id="contentAbstract_full">The American War in
Afghanistan is a full history of the war in Afghanistan between
2001 and 2020. It covers political, cultural, strategic, and
tactical aspects of the war and details the actions and
decision-making of the United States, Afghan government, and
Taliban. The work follows a narrative format to go through the
2001 US invasion, the state-building of 2002–2005, the Taliban
offensive of 2006, the US surge of 2009–2011, the subsequent
drawdown, and the peace talks of 2019–2020. The focus is on the
overarching questions of the war: Why did the United States
fail? What opportunities existed to reach a better outcome? Why
did the United States not withdraw from the war?</p>
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War">Afghan War</a>, <a
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Army">US Army</a>, <a
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<td>Print publication date: 2021</td>
<td>Print ISBN-13: 9780197550779</td>
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<td>Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2021</td>
<td>DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197550779.001.0001</td>
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