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Washington Post correspondent Chandrasekaran here focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of President Obama's surge. This is the story of the long arc of American involvement and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan, and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the President and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way.
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"As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top Taliban leaders were in fact ready to surrender within...
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