{"title":"Light Footprints to a Long War","authors":"Christopher D. Kolenda","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813152769.003.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses U.S. planning and assumptions before the invasion of Afghanistan. The Bush administration, with President Bush’s dislike of nation-building, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s preference for light, technological solutions, and the idea that Afghanistan was only one of many fronts of the Global War on Terrorism, opted for a limited military footprint and aimed to exit as quickly as possible. A contradiction ensued between a decisive victory outcome and the minimalist ways and means devoted to it.","PeriodicalId":235305,"journal":{"name":"Zero-Sum Victory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zero-Sum Victory","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813152769.003.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter discusses U.S. planning and assumptions before the invasion of Afghanistan. The Bush administration, with President Bush’s dislike of nation-building, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s preference for light, technological solutions, and the idea that Afghanistan was only one of many fronts of the Global War on Terrorism, opted for a limited military footprint and aimed to exit as quickly as possible. A contradiction ensued between a decisive victory outcome and the minimalist ways and means devoted to it.
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