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Directorate S the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.

Main Author: Coll, Steve (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Subjects:
Afghan War, 2001-
Military intelligence > United States.
Military intelligence > Pakistan.
United States > Military relations > Pakistan.
Pakistan > Military relations > United States.
Summary: Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
Physical Description: xxiii, 757 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-736) and index.
ISBN: 9781594204586
1594204586
Author Notes: Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker , and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post , where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of seven other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road , The Bin Ladens , Private Empire , and Directorate S .

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