american strategy "state - nation building" in afghanistan

based- effect operation; usa strategy in afghanistan

in the past two decades, the world as a whole and the usa in specific, were confronted by new kinds of threats. in this era, usa has tried to change it’s strategies to encounter these threats especially after 9/11. dealing with them, requires a new strategy that includes different variables such as political, military, economic and etc. the goal of this strategy is to leave the most affects on ...

Afghanistan: Strategy and War Termination

W has ending the war in Afghanistan proved to be so problematic? In theory, the decision to end a war should be relatively straightforward. One or more of the belligerents determine whether or not it is worth continuing the conflict and, as long as at least one of them decides that continuing to fight is not worth the investment, peace is offered and the conflict terminates. Clausewitz encapsul...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Jeffrey Sachs: A Better Strategy for Afghanistan

President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan does not pass the tests for war that he offered in his Nobel Lecture. Afghanistan is being preyed upon by a limited insurgency that feeds on Afghanistan’s poverty and desperation. Most Afghans do not support the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, but are vulnerable to their pressures. Young unemployed men often join militant factions out of the need to earn a ...

The making of 'American': race and nation in neurasthenic discourse.

This paper considers the underexamined racial and nationalistic components of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century neurasthenic discourse to propose that neurasthenia was as much a discourse of modern American identity as it was a discourse of disease. By closely reading the medical and general texts which helped to popularize it, and by scrutinizing the context of its vogue and suppose...

american self-identification: a strategy of maintenance