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Foxtrot in Kandahar - A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War (Hardcover)
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Foxtrot in Kandahar - A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War (Hardcover)
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Kandahar. An ancient desert crossroads, and as of fall of 2001,
ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qa'ida in southern Afghanistan.
In the north, the U.S.-supported Northern Alliance, the Afghan
organization opposed to the Taliban regime, has made progress on
the battlefield and Kabul has fallen. But in the south, the country
is still under the Taliban's sway, and al-Qa'ida continues to
operate there. With no "Southern Alliance" for the U.S. to support,
a new strategy is called for. Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans is
dispatched to Pakistan to "get something going in the South." This
is the true story of Evans's unexpected journey from the pristine
halls of Langley to the badlands of southern Afghanistan. Within
hours after he watched the horrors of 9/11 unfold during a chance
visit to FBI Headquarters, Evans begins a personal and relentless
quest to become part of the U.S. response against al-Qa'ida. This
memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound
for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front
lines in Pakistan, first as part of the advanced element of CIA's
Echo team supporting Hamid Karzai, and finally as leader of the
under-resourced and often overlooked Foxtrot team. Relying on rusty
military skills from Evans's days as a Green Beret and brandishing
a traded-for rifle, he moves toward Kandahar, one of only a handful
of Americans pushing forward across the desert in the company of
Pashtun warriors into some of the most dangerous, yet mesmerizingly
beautiful, landscape on earth. The ultimate triumph of the CIA and
Special Forces teams, when absolutely everything was on the line,
is tempered by the US tragedy that catalyzed what is now America's
longest war. Evans's very personal adventure that unfolds within
the pages of Foxtrot in Kandahar: A Memoir of a CIA Officer in
Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War, which
concludes with an analysis of opportunities lost in the years since
his time in Afghanistan, should be required reading for everyone
interested in modern warfare.
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