'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

. 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.