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)
Other Authors: Hillgartner, Malcolm (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape, [2018]
Edition: Unabridged.
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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.
Item Description: Title from web page.
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 15 audio discs (19 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time: 19:00:00
ISBN: 9780525528593
0525528598
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 his most recent title, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power .