Thinking a bit more about this week's blog post (https://acoup.blog/2021/09/24/collections-no-mans-land-part-ii-breaking-the-stalemate/ …) and its predecessor, one thing I hope comes through clearly in this analysis is how many 'easy' solutions fall apart when they make contact with the finicky, stubborn details.
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One problem I see with a lot of history, but also nat. sec. political analysis that gets to the public is that it stays up at the level of abstraction. For example recently, the explanation the public got for the collapse of the ANA/ANP was 'corruption' and 'demoralization.'
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Which is true, in an airy, summary kind of way. But at some point, you need to make that concrete: the problem was leaders stealing gasoline and ammo from their units and selling it or putting people on the roles to get a paycheck who weren't really there, etc.
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I did read enough to think about it that way but it’s very frustrating, because it’s hard to follow up and understand why the Americans, having paid all that money didn’t put good audit in place. Especially after what happened in S Vietnam
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Think about managing that audit - you need bunches of (presumably American) officials going around doing all of this auditing, charging or sacking corrupt leaders. By the time you're done, you'll have essentially created a colonial government in the country.
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