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101 Joint Staff, Joint and Coalition Operational Analysis, Operationalizing Counter/Anticorruption
Study, pp. 1, 9-10; U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Confronting Afghanistan’s Corruption Crisis,” Kabul
3681 cable (declassified by U.S. Department of State on December 11, 2015, at SIGAR’s request),
September 15, 2005, pp. 2-3; Suhrke, When More is Less, pp. 14-15; Sarah Chayes, The Punishment
of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2006), pp. 227-228;
Carter and Clark, No Shortcut to Stability, pp. vii-ix; Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires, pp. 130-
131; UN official, SIGAR interview, July 31, 2015.
102 Former senior U.S. official, SIGAR interview, December 11, 2015; see also Chayes, Thieves of
State, pp. 44-45; Kim Barker, “Letter from Kabul: Solving Afghanistan’s Problems,” Foreign Affairs,
November 30, 2009; Combating Terrorism Archive Project, “Interview with Kirk Meyer”; Fishstein
and Wilder, Winning Hearts and Minds?, p. 44; Shaazka Beyerle (author of Curtailing Corruption:
People Power for Accountability and Justice [Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2014]),
SIGAR interview, September 24, 2015.
103 Former senior U.S. official, SIGAR interview, December 11, 2015.
104 Crocker, SIGAR interview, January 11, 2016.
105 Combating Terrorism Archive Project, “Interview with Kirk Meyer.”
106 Former senior NSC official, SIGAR interview, July 14, 2015; senior USAID official, SIGAR interview,
August 24, 2015; former intelligence officer, SIGAR interview, December 8, 2015; Crocker, SIGAR
interview, January 11, 2016; State Department, U.S. Mission to Afghanistan, Mission Performance
Plan FY 2006, April 12, 2004, p. 27.
107 George W. Bush, “President’s News Conference,” October 11, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.
archives.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011011-7.html (accessed August 4, 2016); Suhrke, When More
Is Less, pp. 23-24.
108 Senior U.S. official, SIGAR interview, August 24, 2015.
109 Former senior State Department official, SIGAR interview, June 1, 2015.
110 Senior Treasury Department official, SIGAR interview, October 1, 2015; senior U.S. official, SIGAR
interview, August 24, 2015; former senior USAID official, SIGAR interview, August 24, 2015.
111 Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, 22 USC § 7513 (a)(5)(b).
112 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Herat: Aid and Trade,” Kabul 541 cable, February 29, 2004, pp. 3, 5, 8; U.S.
Embassy Kabul, “PRT Badghis,” Kabul 5180 cable, December 20, 2005, pp. 2, 4. Consisting of both
civilian and military personnel, Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) were designed to improve an
area’s stability by building host nation capacity, legitimacy, and effectiveness.
113 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Herat: Aid and Trade,” Kabul 541 cable, February 29, 2004, p. 4; U.S. Embassy
Kabul, “Ghor Province: Anatomy of a Power Struggle,” Kabul 1876 cable, June 22, 2004, p. 2.
114 U.S. Embassy Kabul, “Confronting Afghanistan’s Corruption Crisis,” Kabul 3681 cable (declassified
by U.S. Department of State on December 11, 2015, at SIGAR’s request), September 15, 2005, p. 1.
115 Ibid, p. 3.
116 Ronald Neumann, The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Potomac
Books, 2009), p. 109.
117 Neumann, The Other War, p. 47.
118 Strmecki, “Afghanistan at a Crossroads,” p. 36; Donald Rumsfeld, “Strmecki,” a memorandum given
to Eric Edelman, Rumsfeld Papers, May 18, 2006.
119 Strmecki, “Afghanistan at a Crossroads,” p. 36.
120 Ibid, pp. 36-39.
121 U.S. Department of the Army, Counterinsurgency, December 2006, foreword.
122 Ibid, p. 1-21.
123 Ibid, pp. 5-7, 6-21 to 6-22, and 8-10.
124 Ibid, p. 8-18.
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