Yet that very comparison undercuts the idea that the subordination of diplomatic to military thinking is something new. policy toward Afghanistan, found himself making the same arguments against the same counterinsurgency military strategies that he had argued against in the Vietnam era. He reports that Holbrooke, in dealing with U.S. diplomacy is being crowded out by military thinking and compares the current situation to the dominance of shortsighted military planners during the Vietnam War. President Barack Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Farrow is a gifted writer and a sharp observer, and parts of this book are brilliant, especially its account of Farrow’s service under Richard Holbrooke, who was U.S.
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