Ghost wars, and it's followup Directorate S, are excellent books on the history of US involvement in afghanistan. It has been an enourmous clusterfuck but not f

Ghost wars, and it's followup Directorate S, are excellent books on the history of US involvement in afghanistan. It has been an enourmous clusterfuck but not for most of the reasons outlined in the comments here. The second afghan involvement post 9/11 was a very poorly run proxy war with pakistan (or perhaps the pakistani intelligence service ISI) and not really all that much to do with afghanistan itself.