Book contents
- Why Allies Rebel
- Why Allies Rebel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why Local Allies Defy or Comply with Requests from Intervening Allies
- 3 Methodology
- 4 The USA in Iraq
- 5 The USA in Afghanistan
- 6 The USA in Vietnam
- 7 India in Sri Lanka
- 8 The USSR in Afghanistan
- 9 When Small States Intervene
- 10 Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The USA in Afghanistan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2020
- Why Allies Rebel
- Why Allies Rebel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why Local Allies Defy or Comply with Requests from Intervening Allies
- 3 Methodology
- 4 The USA in Iraq
- 5 The USA in Afghanistan
- 6 The USA in Vietnam
- 7 India in Sri Lanka
- 8 The USSR in Afghanistan
- 9 When Small States Intervene
- 10 Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Detailing the US intervention in Afghanistan this chapter provides a list of policy requests from the USA to Afghan partners and the rate of Afghan compliance from 2001 to 2011. Providing a summary of the US-Afghan counterinsurgency partnership from the start of the US intervention to 2011, this chapter discusses several distinctive components of the Afghan-US alliance, namely the tension between US and Afghan officials, and an unusual pattern of free riding in Afghanistan not observed in other interventions examined in the book. Afghan compliance was affected by the convergence or divergence of US and Afghan interests, interacting with US dependency on Kabul to implement particular reforms. There are 148 US policy requests identified and detailed including working against corruption, expanding governance capacity, addressing counternarcotics, and aiding in development programs.
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- Why Allies RebelDefiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars, pp. 120 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020