The United States made remarkable progress in part of southern Afghanistan with the deployment of thousands of Marines. But was it worth it? (Rajiv Chandrasekaran/Anup Kaphle/Jason Aldag/The Washington Post)
Excerpted From “Little America: The War Within The War For Afghanistan.” -- Washington Post
The day after he arrived in Kabul in June 2009, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, then the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, gathered his senior officers to discuss the state of the war. They barraged him with PowerPoint slides — the frequency of Taliban attacks and their impact; the number of local security forces; and an evaluation of the Afghan government’s effectiveness in each province. The metrics were grim, the conclusion obvious: The Americans and their NATO allies were losing.
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