{"title":"Assessments and Risks","authors":"Christopher D. Kolenda","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813152769.003.0016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter sheds light on how the success of the surge was assessed. As the surge was underway, each agency and department continued to assess the conflict within its silo, using different metrics and drawing different conclusions. With no interagency authority below the President, and the latter being focused on other events, the strategy for Afghanistan did not seem to take into account the developments on the ground.","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/9780813152769.003.0016","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 sheds light on how the success of the surge was assessed. As the surge was underway, each agency and department continued to assess the conflict within its silo, using different metrics and drawing different conclusions. With no interagency authority below the President, and the latter being focused on other events, the strategy for Afghanistan did not seem to take into account the developments on the ground.