The Valley's Edge

Biography & Memoir, Historical, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Daniel R. Green ISBN: 9781597978644
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. Publication: November 30, 2011
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc. Language: English
Author: Daniel R. Green
ISBN: 9781597978644
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Publication: November 30, 2011
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc.
Language: English
In this gripping, firsthand account, Daniel Green tells the story of U.S. efforts to oust the Taliban insurgency from the desolate southern Afghan province of Uruzgan. Nestled between the Hindu Kush mountains and the sprawling wasteland of the Margow and Khash Deserts, Uruzgan is a microcosm of U.S. efforts to prevent Afghanistan from falling to the Taliban insurgency and Islamic radicalism.

Green, who served in Uruzgan from 2005 to 2006 as a U.S. Department of State political adviser to a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), reveals how unrealistic expectations, a superficial understanding of the Afghans, and a lack of resources contributed to the Talibans resurgence in the area. He discusses the PRTs good-governance efforts, its reconstruction and development projects, the violence of the insurgency, and the PRTs attempts to manage its complex relationship with the local warlord cum governor of the province.

Upon returning to Afghanistan in 2009 with the U.S. military and while working at the
U.S. Embassy in Kabul until 2010, Green discovered that although many improvements
had been made since he had last served in the country, the problems he had experienced in
Uruzgan continued despite the transition from the Bush administration to the Obama
administration.
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In this gripping, firsthand account, Daniel Green tells the story of U.S. efforts to oust the Taliban insurgency from the desolate southern Afghan province of Uruzgan. Nestled between the Hindu Kush mountains and the sprawling wasteland of the Margow and Khash Deserts, Uruzgan is a microcosm of U.S. efforts to prevent Afghanistan from falling to the Taliban insurgency and Islamic radicalism.

Green, who served in Uruzgan from 2005 to 2006 as a U.S. Department of State political adviser to a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), reveals how unrealistic expectations, a superficial understanding of the Afghans, and a lack of resources contributed to the Talibans resurgence in the area. He discusses the PRTs good-governance efforts, its reconstruction and development projects, the violence of the insurgency, and the PRTs attempts to manage its complex relationship with the local warlord cum governor of the province.

Upon returning to Afghanistan in 2009 with the U.S. military and while working at the
U.S. Embassy in Kabul until 2010, Green discovered that although many improvements
had been made since he had last served in the country, the problems he had experienced in
Uruzgan continued despite the transition from the Bush administration to the Obama
administration.

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