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9/11 Reprisal,on of Afghanistan to remove al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts from power. Tripathi then refers to how America’s reprisal was extended to the global war on terror, and discusses Washington’s renewal of security arrangements with Pakistan, explaining that the history of the US-Pakistan relationship had b

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Overreach,rwhelming force achieves success, and their seduction for more is too strong to resist. However, this pattern has an end, because the costs ultimately make it difficult or impossible to continue. In this chapter, Tripathi develops a qualitative methodology starting from Paul Kennedy’s seminal book,

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War on Terror, Qaeda, but would not end until every terrorist group with global reach had been found, and defeated. Twenty years later, that war was continuing when President Biden took office. There were successes. For example, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, were dead.

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Arab Spring,ld, demanding freedom and democracy. As the author explains, some authoritarian regimes were overthrown as a result, leading to greater democratic outcomes. But the people of Egypt enjoyed only a brief spell of democratic government, which was overthrown, returning the country to harsh military rule

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Return to Kabul,rican project to rebuild the Afghan state fail? What was the Taliban’s strategy to reorganize and confront the foreign forces, and what factors helped the Taliban to succeed? Tripathi examines the ways in which different Taliban groups operated independently, but also cooperated toward their common

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Conclusion,ing to public disenchantment. Tripathi shows that, like the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and the Vietnam War before, the United States had overreached, spending an excessive amount of military, economic, and moral capital by 2021, beyond which the war could not continue. The author also r