Introduction
The Text of Hate
Masood
Khalili (translated by Robert Darr)
Afghan Witness 1 Zarifa: Policewomen
Face a Dangerous Future
PEOPLE
Chapter 1 What Now?
The Future in Afghanistan
Jill Suzanne Kornetsky
Chapter 2 Someone’s
Gotta Say It: Unspoken Ground Truths and Mistakes Not to Repeat
Jill Suzanne Kornetsky
Chapter 3 From
Taliban to Taliban: Cycle of Hope, Despair on Women’s Rights
Heather
Barr
Chapter 4 Stolen Promises: The US Retreat and the
Afghan Diaspora
Laura
Cretney
Chapter 5 A
Failure of Leadership
Mahmud
Khalili
Chapter 6 A Conversation with
Former Minister of the Interior Masoud Andarabi
Masoud
Andarabi
Chapter 7 Dispatches:
Extracts from the Journalism of Hollie McKay in Afghanistan
Hollie
McKay
Afghan Witness 2 Ghulam: A Young Man
Tries to Escape Being Recruited by the Taliban
NEIGHBOURS
Chapter 8 Islam-Inspired
Ways of Avoiding the Resource Curse in Afghanistan
Omar
Al-Ubaydli
Chapter 9 The
View from Iraq
Dr
Haider al-Abadi
Chapter 10 Hostile
Takeover of Afghanistan – Regional Approach and India’s Concerns
Arun
Sahgal and Shreyas Deshmukh
Chapter 11 ‘No
End of a Lesson’: The End of Liberal Internationalism and the New Isolationism
Brian
Brivati
Afghan Witness 3 Sakhi: Losing My
Culture Overnight
FOREVER WAR
Chapter 12 ‘The Enemy Is in Kabul’
Dr
Alia Brahimi
Chapter 13 Intelligence Needs
Understanding: Reasons for the West’s Failure in Afghanistan
Nick
Fishwick
Chapter 14 Battling
for Narrative Advantage in Afghanistan: NATO TV and a Digital-First Strategy
Thomas Dodd
Chapter 15 The
Intelligence Failure and the Cultural Failure of the West to Think in
Generations
Philip
Ingram MBE
Chapter 16 Afghanistan:
A Strategic Failure of Vision, Resource and Patience
Professor
Paul Cornish
Chapter 17 The Role
of the Absence of Risk Management Thinking in the Collapse of Afghanistan
Safa
Mahdi
Afghan Witness 4 Esin:
A Human Rights Defender Attempts to Protest Peacefully
LIBERAL INTERVENTIONISM
Chapter 18 The Future of Liberal Military
Interventionism Post-Kabul
Graham
Cundy
Chapter 19 Questions About the Future of Liberal
Interventionism
Lord
Purvis of Tweed
Chapter 20 General
Dannatt, the Forever Wars and the Military Elite’s Threat to Democracy
Professor
Paul Dixon
Chapter 21 The Post-Afghan Reset and the Case for Rebuilding
EU–UK Security Cooperation
Stephen
Gethins
Afghan Witness 5 Gulnaz: A Mother Turns
to Sex Work
The Talib’s Loud Recitation
Masood
Khalili (translated by Robert Darr)
Contributors
Notes
Index
