Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. Afghanistan and its challenges / William Maley and Jack Cunningham—2. Australian approaches to Afghanistan / William Maley—3. Afghanisan-some lessons learned : a personal political perspective / The Hon. Bill Graham—4. Afghanisatn-some lessons learned : a personal academic perspective / Adam Chapnick—5. Afghanistan-Post-2014 : Pakistani perspectives / Samina Yasmeen—6. The economic cost to Australia of the war in Afghanistan / Peter Hall—7. The cost of the war in Afghanisan : a billion dollars a year and counting / J. Craig Stone—8. Australian civil-military lessons from Afghanistan / Michael G. Smith—9. Development : lessons learned from a decade in Afghanistan / Nipa Banerjee—10. Shadows of the past : commemorating the fallen in Australia and Canada / Kim Richard Nossal—11. With the benefit of hindsight : chronicling Afghanistan errors / Ramesh Thakur—12. The legacy of Canada’s Afghanistan mission / Roland Paris—Acknowledgments—Contributors—Index.

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