A Vulcan's Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged the Reconstruction of Afghanistan Bush during his 2000 presidential campaign. All were veterans of past administrations, having served under either Ronald Reagan or George H. After Bush assumed the presidency, the Vulcans helped shape the administration's foreign policy fo
| TITLE | : | A Vulcan's Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged the Reconstruction of Afghanistan |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.87 (459 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0815725469 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 335 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-07-10 |
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A firsthand account of how the Bush administration mismanaged its Afghan campaign, A Vulcan's Tale shines new and important light on the events and people behind the headlines in the immediate years following the September 11 attacks.The "Vulcans," so named by Condoleezza Rice, were eight foreign policy experts who advised George W. Bush during his 2000 presidential campaign. After Bush assumed the presidency, the Vulcans helped shape the administration's foreign policy following 9/11, including the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. All were veterans of past administrations, having served under either Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush, and they included among their ranks Dov Zakheim. Made comptroller and chief financial officer for the Department of Defense in 2001, Zakheim was also named the DoD's coordinator for Afghan civilian reconstruction in 2002.In A Vulcan's
EDITORIAL :
"Dov Zakheim's unerringly honest and well-written book does two critical things. It gives us the best and closest look into how the Bush team operated in Afghanistan. It also gives us the best brief ever of how even the best policy succeeds or fails in the details, in the implementation."Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations and New York Times columnist, former assistant secretary of state for politico-military affairs
" A Vulcan's Tale is a lively and absorbing read. Dov Zakheim has spent decades working closely with the men and women who made U.S. foreign policy under George W. Bush. His tale of why the reconstruction of Afghanistan fell so short has the impact and credibility that only an insider's account can. But well beyond Afghanistan, this is a book for anyone who seeks to understand why our policy reach so often e
REVIEW :
Kris Carr gives the real tips I needed and has helped me frame my experience in a positive way that I didn't think possible previously. I also think he is inviting legitimate criticism when he claims that more money allocated to Afghanistan between 2001 and 2003 would have produced a very different outcome without attending to his concerns about USAID and the general absence of implementation strategies for policy decisions. The step-by-step method of instruction and comprehensiveness of the exercises, from data research and collection through final map development, makes the skills learned easily transferrable to real world GIS challenges in the field of humanitarian assistance (or any field).
If you're new to GIS or unfamiliar with the basic spatial operations in ArcGIS, I would recommend working through this book after or in conjunction with a primer. Of course that was a g
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