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strategy for achieving its goals in Afghanistan.” When a House committee investigated the trucking system that supplied American forces, it found that the system had “fueled a vast protection racket run by a shadowy network of warlords, strongmen, commanders, corrupt Afghan officials, and perhaps others.” Its report concluded that “protection payments for safe passage are a significant potential source of funding for the Taliban.” The system risked “undermining the U.S.
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One result has been forms of corruption so extreme that the military has, in some cases, funded its own enemy. forces in Afghanistan today, they outnumber them three to one. Since 2007, there have regularly been more contractors than U.S. To minimize casualties, the military outsourced any task that it could: maintenance, cooking and laundry, overland logistics, even security. Political debate in Washington has focussed on the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan and the losses that they have sustained. The result was a war waged as much by for-profit companies as by the military. “Employ money as a weapons system,” Petraeus wrote in 2008. He believed that money had helped buy peace during his command of American forces in Iraq. at the time of the invasion was around a hundred and twenty dollars. counterinsurgency strategy, encouraged the practice of pumping money into the economy of Afghanistan, where the per-capita G.D.P. General David Petraeus, a principal architect of U.S. Illustration by Yarek WaszulĪmerica’s war in Afghanistan, which is now in its fifteenth year, presents a mystery: how could so much money, power, and good will have achieved so little? Congress has appropriated almost eight hundred billion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan a hundred and thirteen billion has gone to reconstruction, more than was spent on the Marshall Plan, in postwar Europe. government, there is growing recognition that our expenditures in Afghanistan have been self-defeating.