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Notes
1. Knickmeyer, “Costs of the Afghanistan War.”
2. Ibid.
3. Bush, “Address to Joint Session of Congress and the American People.”
4. “Collective Defence – Article 5.”
5. “The U.S. War in Afghanistan,199–2021.”
6. Rubin, “Did the War in Afghanistan Have to Happen?”.
7. Rumsfeld, Pentagon Briefing.
8. “ISAF”s Mission in Afghanistan (Citation2001-2014).”
9. Warden, “Was Obama”s 2009 Afghanistan Surge Based on Sound Strategy?”.
10. FM 3–24: Counterinsurgency.
11. See note 9 above.
12. “U.S. Military Withdrawal and Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan,” 6–7.
13. Gentile, “A Strategy of Tactics.”
14. Gentile, Wrong Turn, p. 3.
15. Porch, Counterinsurgency.
16. Ucko, “Critics Gone Wild;” 161–179.
17. Mockaitis, COIN Conundrum.
18. Greentree, “What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?,” 7–21.
19. Bernard B. Fall, quoted in Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerrilla, 88.
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Thomas R. Mockaitis
Thomas R. Mockaitis is Professor of History at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. He presents programs on terrorism with other experts through the Institute for Strategic Governance at venues around the world. He also does presentations for the International Fellows Program, Defense Intelligence Agency. Professor Mockaitis was the 2004 Eisenhower Chair at the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands. He has lectured at the NATO School (Germany), Marshall Center (Germany), the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the Canadian Forces Staff College, and presented papers at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center (Canada), the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (UK), and the Austrian National Defense Academy. Prof. Mockaitis is the author of numerous books and articles, including Violent Extremists: Understanding the Domestic and International Terrorist Threat (ABC-CLIO/Praeger, 2019), Conventional and Unconventional War: A History of Conflict in the Modern World (ABC-CLIO/Praeger, 2017), Iraq and the Challenge of Counterinsurgency (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008), and British Counterinsurgency: 1919-1960 (London, UK: Macmillan, 1990).