Cables from Kabul  10016

• Map of Afghanistan
• Map of Kabul
• Tribute to the Fallen
• Preface

Part I: Beginnings

1. An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse
2. First Impressions
3. Helmandshire
4. ‘A Marathon Rather than a Sprint’
5. Breather Break

Part II: Hope Over Experience

6. A King’s Funeral
7. The Spreading Virus
8. The Great Game – Round Four
9. Hooked Drugs
10. Coping Kabul
11. Highland Fling: Karzai in Scotland
12. Mr Brown Comes to Town

Part III: Against an Ebbing Tide

13. Reversal of Fortune
14. ‘We Are Winning – Only It Doesn’t Feel Like It’
15. The Karzai Conundrum
16. Cracking on in Helmand
17. Afghan Attitudes
18. Waiting for Obama

Part IV: Tactics without Strategy – One Last Heave

19. Biden and Beyond
20. Au Revoir Afghanistan
21. Richard Holbrooke’s Flying Circus
22. Where’s Dick?

Part V: Recessional

23. Embassy Encore
24. Untying the Knot
25. Three Lessons Learned
26. Back to the Future

• Afterword: Eyeless in Afghanistan

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