U.S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War

In the past quarter century, Afghanistan has found itself at the crossroads of international terrorist violence & become a major contributor to world narcotics production. This report deconstructs the opium economy of Afghanistan into its main components: cultivation, production, finance, trade & consumption. It then reconstructs the country's development processes piece by piece, showing that it is essential to help poor farmers decide in favor of licit crops; to replace narco-usury with micro-lending; to provide jobs to women & to itinerant workers; to provide education to children, particularly girls; to turn bazaars into modern commodity markets; & to neutralize warlords' efforts to keep the evil trade alive. Charts & graphs.Ballantine, Duncan Smith is the author of 'U.S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War' with ISBN 9780756728885 and ISBN 0756728886.