Includes index.
Foreword / Bruce Riedel
Introduction
The rise, fall, and resurgence of the Taliban
The strategy
Responding to the critics
Measuring progress-and figuring out an exit plan
Improving the strategy
Appendix : excerpts from Brookings Afghanistan Index: Tracking Variables and of Reconstruction and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan.
Toughing it out in Afghanistan by Michael E. O'Hanlon. ISBN 9780815704096. Published by Brookings Institution Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.