Civilian Oversight of Military Operations in Afghanistan: The Case of Sigar (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031983221)

This book assesses the oversight regime in Afghanistan to identify and characterize the oversight failures, and then links them to specific negative strategic outcomes. Although there are high-quality analyses available about what went wrong in Afghanistan and why, few of them are grounded in scholarly research that uses empirical methods. This book fills that epistemological gap as well as provides a unique contribution to the body of literature, which does not contain any comprehensive studies of Afghanistan oversight. This type of study is important because certain characterizations of an oversight failure--e.g., Congress knowing that things were going badly in Afghanistan but choosing not to do anything about it--point to several pathologies about political control of the military and the incentive structures contained therein. Understanding and proactively managing these pathologies will be critical to improving strategic outcomes in future complex military interventions of the Afghanistan type.

Author: Patrick J. Sullivan
ISBN-10: 303198322X
ISBN-13: 9783031983221
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2025
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d