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Because the Pentagon insisted on maintaining a &#8220;small footprint&#8221; in Afghanistan and because Iraq was drawing away resources, General Barno commanded fewer than 20,000 troops.</p><p>As a result, battalions with 800 soldiers were trying to secure provinces the size of Vermont. &#8220;Coalition forces remained thinly spread across Afghanistan,&#8221; the historians write. &#8220;Much of the country remained vulnerable to enemy force increasingly willing to reassert their power.&#8221; </p><p>That early and undermanned effort to employ counterinsurgency is one of several examples of how American forces, hamstrung by inadequate resources, missed opportunities to stabilize Afghanistan during the early years of the war, according to the history, &#8220;A Different Kind of War.&#8221; </p><p>This year, a resurgent <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taliban/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Taliban.">Taliban</a> prompted the current American commander, Gen. <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/stanley_a_mcchrystal/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Stanley A. 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Written by a team of seven historians at the Army&#8217;s<a href="http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/CSI/" title="Institute&#8217;s Web site."> Combat Studies Institute</a> at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and based on open source material, it is scheduled to be published by spring. </p><p>The New York Times obtained a copy of the manuscript, which is still under review by current and former military officials.</p><p>Though other histories, including &#8220;In the Graveyard of Empires&#8221; by <a href="http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/sgj2/" title="Jones&#8217;s bio page at Georgetown.">Seth G. 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In fact, the message from senior D.O.D officials in Washington was for the U.S. military to avoid such efforts.&#8221; </p><p>In one telling anecdote from 2004, the history describes how soldiers under General Barno had so little experience in counterinsurgency that one lieutenant colonel bought books about the strategy over the Internet and distributed them to his company commanders and platoon leaders.</p><p>In another case, a civil affairs commander in charge of small-scale reconstruction projects told the historians that he had been given $1 million in cash to house and equip his soldiers but that bureaucratic obstacles prevented him from spending a penny on projects. It took months to reduce the red tape, the historians say. </p><p><span class="bold"> </span>The historians also say that such anecdotes underscore the resourcefulness of commanders faced with unclear guidance and inadequate resources. 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