You Can't Manage If You Don't Measure

Anthony Cordesman applies this management cliche to the war in Afghanistan. He does a wonderful job in showing all the areas where better information - not necessarily data - is mandatory if we are ever going to come out of this catastrophe in any reasonable shape. Cordesman comes down particularly hard on the central government as well as the aid agencies. Is he too late in asking for so much?

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