Explores the mismanagement of American aid to Afghanistan and how these taxpayer dollars have wound up in the coffers of the Taliban, effectively losing the war for the United States.

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Timeline of key events in Afghanistan War -- Outsourcing and incoming, 2001 -- True peace, 2002 -- The creeping mission : development and the military -- Making some arrangements : the United States, opium, and the Afghans -- Loss of focus -- All together : the culture of corruption -- The neo-Taliban : a learning organization -- Housecats of Kabul -- The afterthought war : zigzag strategies -- The broken agency : USAID -- The COIN flip -- The realization -- They get that : agricultural development in Afghanistan -- Change-management strategy -- The complexities -- The perfect war -- The way.