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underestimation

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See: disregard, understatement


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Eikenberry, who has long experience of Afghanistan and is a recently retired three-star general,said that there is a dangerous misunderstanding outside Afghanistan about what "corruption and mismanagement" mean in an Afghan context and a potentially lethal underestimation of how these impact on American and British forces.
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