ForewordPart One: A False Taste of Victory, 2001–2002Chapter One: A Muddled MissionChapter Two: “Who Are the Bad Guys?”Chapter Three: The Nation-Building ProjectPart Two: The Great Distraction, 2003–2005Chapter Four: Afghanistan Becomes an AfterthoughtChapter Five: Raising an Army from the AshesChapter Six: Islam for DummiesChapter Seven: Playing Both SidesPart Three: The Taliban Comes Back, 2006–2008Chapter Eight: Lies and SpinChapter Nine: An Incoherent StrategyChapter Ten: The WarlordsChapter Eleven: A War on OpiumPart Four: Obama’s Overreach, 2009–2010Chapter Twelve: Doubling DownChapter Thirteen: “A Dark Pit of Endless Money”Chapter Fourteen: From Friend to FoeChapter Fifteen: Consumed by CorruptionPart Five: Things Fall Apart, 2011–2016Chapter Sixteen: At War with the TruthChapter Seventeen: The Enemy WithinChapter Eighteen: The Grand IllusionPart Six: Stalemate, 2017–2021Chapter Nineteen: Trump’s TurnChapter Twenty: The Narco-StateChapter Twenty-One: Talking with the TalibanNote on SourcesPhotographsAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorEndnotesBibliographyIndex