By Rebekah Curtis | Thu., August 11, 4:37 PM | Comments ( 0 )
An Afghan woman and her children walk past a destroyed building at the old part of Kabul August 3, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
Billions of dollars in aid and military assistance has poured into Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion but the country remains plighted by poverty, poor healthcare and conflict.
Examining aid policy and military strategy in the state, a new book – "Afghanistan - How the West Lost Its Way" – argues the intervention lacked strategic clarity and coherence and that the international community has failed in its efforts to quell problems in the nation where conflict has uprooted millions of people:
“Afghanistan remains a nation riddled with warlords, the world's major heroin producer, and the site of a seemingly endless conflict between Islamist militants and NATO forces,” Yale University Press, the publisher, says in its online summary of the book.
Despite noting shortcomings in the international intervention, the authors Tim Bird and Alex Marshall also acknowledge that the tensions surrounding the heroin trade, the country’s rugged terrain and precarious relations with Pakistan presented U.S. forces with unique challenges.
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