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Directorate S - The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Paperback)
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Directorate S - The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Paperback)
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Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Non-Fiction 'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great
tragedy of our age ... it is a classic' Evening Standard 'In the
finest traditions of American investigative journalism' The Times
'Spectacular ... makes Bourne movies pale in comparison' Financial
Times From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars,
this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs
of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016. In the wake of the terrible shock
of 9/11, the C.I.A. scrambled to work out how to destroy Bin Laden
and his associates. The C.I.A. had long familiarity with
Afghanistan and had worked closely with the Taliban to defeat the
Soviet Union there. A tangle of assumptions, old contacts, favours
and animosities were now reactivated. Superficially the invasion
was quick and efficient, but Bin Laden's successful escape,
together with that of much of the Taliban leadership, and a
catastrophic failure to define the limits of NATO's mission in a
tough, impoverished country the size of Texas, created a quagmire
which lasted many years. At the heart of the problem lay
'Directorate S', a highly secretive arm of the Pakistan state which
had its own views on the Taliban and Afghanistan's place in a wider
competition for influence between Pakistan, India and China, and
which assumed that the U.S.A. and its allies would soon be leaving.
Steve Coll's remarkable new book tells a powerful, bitter story of
just how badly foreign policy decisions can go wrong and of many
lives lost.
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