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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many MOABs were dropped during Trump's term in office?

2. In August 2008, how many were killed in Azizabad, mostly children?

3. How far was the Kajaki Dam from Kandahar?

4. In Chapter 14, how many provinces did Afghanistan have?

5. How many combat tours did Army Maj. Gen. Edward Reeder, Jr., serve in Afghanistan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What corruption erupted after Karzai was reelected, and in what way was the U.S. partially responsible?

2. What did the Pentagon brass tell Trump about withdrawing from Afghanistan?

3. Why was it difficult to hold opium drug lords accountable?

4. What problems were there with the quality of the Afghan recruits?

5. What did James Dobbins believe was the key benchmark that revealed the success of the war efforts in Afghanistan?

6. What information did Sherkhan Farnood provide U.S. officials about the Kabul Bank?

7. What did a senior U.S. official who served as a civilian in Afghanistan say about Obama's surge strategy being a mistake?

8. Why was Gen. David McKiernan fired in 2009?

9. What did Obama have to say about Afghanistan on December 1, 2009?

10. What went wrong with an airstrike on July 6, 2008?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Whitlock wrote that the Bush administration blurred the line between al-Qaeda and the Taliban. How did the Bush administration blur the differences between al-Qaeda and the Taliban? How did the failure to differentiate between the groups make it difficult to understand who the bad guys were?

Essay Topic 2

Afghan security forces began to carry out fratricidal attacks. What were some examples of these insider attacks? How were the insider attacks a betrayal? What problems did that betrayal cause?

Essay Topic 3

There seemed to be a "never-ending game of cat and mouse" along the Pakistan/Afghan border. U.S. forces frequently wondered whose side the Pakistanis were on. Why were there questions regarding who the Pakistanis were supporting and how did they seem to be playing both sides of the conflict?

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