TY - BOOK AU - Wissing,Douglas A. TI - Funding the enemy : : how US taxpayers bankroll the Taliban / SN - 9781616146030 AV - DS371.4. W57 2012 PY - 2012///. CY - Amherst, New York : PB - Prometheus Books, KW - Taliban KW - Finance. KW - Postwar reconstruction KW - Afghanistan. KW - Economic assistance, American KW - Economic development KW - Finance KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Afghanistan KW - United States. N1 - Maps on lining pages ; Contents: List of abbreviations—Chronology : timeline of key events in Afghanistan War—Prologue : outsourcing and incoming, 2001—Introduction—Chapter 1. True peace, 2002—Chapter 2 : the creeping mission : development and the military—Chapter 3 : making some arrangements : the United States, opium, and the Afghans—Chapter 4 : loss of focus—Chapter 5 : all together : the culture of corruption—Chapter 6 : the neo-Taliban : a learning organization—Chapter 7 : housecats of Kabul—Chapter 8 : the afterthought war : zigzag strategies—Chapter 9 : the broken agency : USAID—Chapter 10 : the COIN flip—Chapter 11 : the realization—Chapter 12 : they get that : agricultural development in Afghanistan—Chapter 13 : change-management strategy—Chapter 14 : the complexities—Chapter 15 : the perfect war—Chapter 16 : the way—Acknowledgments—Notes—Index ER -