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    'Little America' in Afghanistan

    America's longest war is winding down as the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is already underway. How have America's goals changed? Has President Obama's military "surge" been successful?  What about the civilian surge? Those and other questions are addressed in Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    America's longest war is winding down as the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is already underway. How have America's goals changed? Has President Obama's military "surge" been successful? What about the civilian surge? Those and other questions are addressed in

    Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan

    . Its author,

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran, is a foreign correspondent and editor for the Washington Post. His

    Imperial Life in the Emerald City was a scathing account of US handling of the war in Iraq.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Sonya Geis

      Senior Managing Editor

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      Rajiv Chandrasekaran

      managing director at the Schultz Family Foundation

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    3 of 3
    Unemployment and Bridging the 'Skills Gap'
    1. 0:00Biden Tells NAACP Mitt Romney Is a 'Threat'
    2. 0:00Long Term Unemployment and the 'American Dream'
    3. 0:00'Little America' in AfghanistanYou’re reading this
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