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¹¹ Antonio Giustozzi, Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002–2007 (New York: New York University Press, 2009).

¹² Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin, 2004), p. 134.

¹³ Ian S. Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon, Afghanistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, January 30, 2012), p. 18 http://www.brookings.edu/-media/Files/Programs/FP/afghanistan%20index/index.pdf.

¹⁴ Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), pp. 88–90.

¹⁵ Radjiv Chandrasekaran, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (New York: Knopf, 2012).

¹⁶ Чандрасекаран дает невероятное описание коррупции и злоупотреблений властью Карзаем в Маленькой Америке в Афганистане.

¹⁷ Там же.

¹⁸ Sheri Berman, «From Sun King to Karzai: Lessons for State Building in Afghanistan», Foreign Affairs, March/April 2010, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65984/sheri-berman/from-the-sun-king-to-karzai. Для более широкого обсуждения данной темы см.: The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), pp. xi – xiii.

¹⁹ Thomas Barfield, «Afghanistan’s Ethnic Puzzle», Foreign Affairs, September/October 2011, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68204/thomas-barfield/afghanistan-ethnic-puzzle.

²⁰ Antonio Giustozzi, Decoding the Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).

²¹ Для более полного представления по этой теме см.: Kimberly Kagan, «The Anbar Awakening: Displacing al-Qaeda from Its Stronghold in Western Iraq», Iraq Report, Institute for Study of War and WeeklyStandard.com, August 21 2006 – March 30 2007, http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/reports/IraqReport03.pdf.

²² Лучше всего описано, как работала эта стратегия, в: Michael O’Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan, Toughing It Out in Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2010).

²³ President Obama’s Secret: Only 100 al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan», ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/president-obamas-secret-100-al-Qaeda-now-afghanistan/story?id=9227861#.TyypheNWqf8.

²⁴ Ambassador Eikenberry’s Cables on U. S. Strategy in Afghanistan», New York Times, http://documents.nytimes.com/eikenberry-s-memos-on-the-strategy-in-afghanistan-#p=1.

²⁵ James Dobbins, «Your COIN Is No Good Here», Foreign Affairs, October 2010, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66949/james-dobbins/your-coin-is-no-good-here?page=2.

²⁶ Chandrasekaran, Little America, pp. 68–81.

²⁷ Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, p. 76.

²⁸ Там же. С. 19–20.

²⁹ Geir Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From «Empire» by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 160, цитируется по: Robert Kagan, The World America Made (New York: Knopf, 2012) p. 63.

³⁰ Fotini Christia and Michael Sempel, «Flipping the Taliban», Foreign Affairs, July/August 2009, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65151/fotini-christia-and-michael-semple/flipping-the-taliban.

³¹ Строб Тэлботт впервые назвал Холбрука «беспокойным американцем» в некрологе «Памяти Ричарда Холбрука», Washington Post, December 15,2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121406366.html. Позднее вышла биография Холбрука под таким же названием: Derek Chollet and Samantha Power, eds., The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (New York: Public Affairs, 2011).

³² Mark Lander, «Afghan Shift Puts Top U. S. Civilians in Tricky Spot», New York Times, July 1, 2010, p. A14.

³³ Из интервью автора с Марком Лэндером в августе 2010 года.

³⁴ Radjiv Chandrasekaran, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (New York: Knopf, 2012), p. 230.