Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue: Port-au-Prince, February 2010

Part I: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

1.  Absolute Beginners

2.  The PowerPoint Warrior

3.  “Beat ’em Up and Go Home”

4.  The Other War

5.  Cash as a Weapon

Part II: History Lessons

6.  The Phoenix Rises

7.  The Accidental Counterinsurgents

Part III: Theory into Practice

8.  Wingtips on the Ground

9.  Kalashnikovs for Hire

10. Peace Corps on Steroids

11. Windshield Ethnographers

12. Obama’s War

Conclusion: Foreign Policy Out of Balance

Acknowledgments

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