ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry, and other higher-ups. officials helped to prolong the war, according to Loyn, who offers blunt and persuasive assessments of the tactics and policies of Gen. By refusing to negotiate with the Taliban early on, U.S. invasion following 9/11, when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s “light-footprint plan,” which required partnering with local militias, contributed to Osama bin Laden’s escape from the Battle of Tora Bora. Loyn ( In Afghanistan), a former BBC correspondent and Afghan government adviser, ranges from the front lines to the halls of power in this deeply reported chronicle of America’s “forever war.” He begins the narrative in 1996, when the Taliban entered Kabul after the Soviet withdrawal, and documents the U.S.
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