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DIRECTORATE S THE CIA & AMERICA'S SECRET WARS AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN HARDCOVER
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- 9781594204586
- Book Title
- Directorate S : the C. I. A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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- 9.6 in
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- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2018
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 1.6 in
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- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Policy / Military Policy, Intelligence & Espionage, Modern / 21st Century, Military / Afghan War (2001-), International Relations / General, World / Middle Eastern, Security (National & International)
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- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 38.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 784 Pages
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Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11 Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as "Directorate S," was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, led by the U. S., deployed troops or provided aid to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the U.S. was set on an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan. Today we know that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly because of military hubris at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources and provocation in the Muslim world caused by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan was doomed because of the failure of the United States to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.'s "Directorate S". This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and across both the Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some of the most prominent military and political figures. A sprawling American tragedy, the war was an open clash of arms but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and subterranean violence. Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed expertise, original research, and attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, local and global, propulsive and painstaking. This is the definitive explanation of how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less than a forensic examination of the personal and political forces that shape world history, Directorate S is a complete masterpiece of both investigative and narrative journalism.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594204586
ISBN-13
9781594204586
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Directorate S : the C. I. A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Military Policy, Intelligence & Espionage, Modern / 21st Century, Military / Afghan War (2001-), International Relations / General, World / Middle Eastern, Security (National & International)
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
784 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
38.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ds371.412.C64 2018
Reviews
"[A]journalistic masterpiece...Coll succeeds on all levels...Coll is masterful at plumbing the depths of agencies and sects within both Afghanistan and Pakistan...In this era of fake news, Coll remains above it all, this time delivering an impeccably researched history of "diplomacy at the highest levels of government in Washington, Islamabad, and Kabul." - Kirkus Reviews (starred), "[A]journalistic masterpiece...Coll succeeds on all levels...Coll is masterful at plumbing the depths of agencies and sects within both Afghanistan and Pakistan...In this era of fake news, Coll remains above it all, this time delivering an impeccably researched history of "diplomacy at the highest levels of government in Washington, Islamabad, and Kabul." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) " With his evenhanded approach, gift for limning character, and dazzling reporting skills, he has created an essential work of contemporary history." -- Booklist (starred) "The most comprehensive work to date on the U.S. war in Afghanistan...Coll's vital work provides a factual and analytical foundation for all future work on the Afghan War and U.S. policy in Central Asia." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred) "Spellbinding. . . It does for America in Afghanistan what Michael Gordon and Tom Ricks did for the Iraq misadventure in Cobra II and Fiasco ." - Evening Standard "This sequel to Ghost Wars might well become the definitive account of the CIA and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan . . . In the pages of Directorate S , the sequel to Coll's Pulitzer prize-winning Ghost Wars , the story is delivered with a literary prowess that has been absent in previous western accounts of America's longest running war. The dance of blame, with the US swaying at one moment towards Pakistan and the next towards Afghanistan, is a choreography familiar to CIA chiefs, US presidents and writers who have tackled the subject. Coll refuses to follow this tired tune, and the result is masterful." -- The Guardian "Steve Coll's Directorate S is the sequel to his magisterial Ghost Wars . Both books rest on a foundation of serious scholarship and Coll's extraordinary access, to individual CIA officers mostly, but also to many others. These notably included members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, where Directorate S was the name given to the branch of the agency "devoted to secret operations in support of the Taliban, Kashmiri guerrillas, and other violent Islamic radicals". Every assertion is carefully sourced and checked. This book is in the finest traditions of American investigative journalism. Coll is the thinking man's Michael Wolff." -- Sherard Cowper- Coles, Times of London, "[A]journalistic masterpiece...Coll succeeds on all levels...Coll is masterful at plumbing the depths of agencies and sects within both Afghanistan and Pakistan...In this era of fake news, Coll remains above it all, this time delivering an impeccably researched history of "diplomacy at the highest levels of government in Washington, Islamabad, and Kabul." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) " With his evenhanded approach, gift for limning character, and dazzling reporting skills, he has created an essential work of contemporary history." -- Booklist (starred) "The most comprehensive work to date on the U.S. war in Afghanistan...Coll's vital work provides a factual and analytical foundation for all future work on the Afghan War and U.S. policy in Central Asia." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred) "This sequel to Ghost Wars might well become the definitive account of the CIA and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan . . . In the pages of Directorate S , the sequel to Coll's Pulitzer prize-winning Ghost Wars , the story is delivered with a literary prowess that has been absent in previous western accounts of America's longest running war. The dance of blame, with the US swaying at one moment towards Pakistan and the next towards Afghanistan, is a choreography familiar to CIA chiefs, US presidents and writers who have tackled the subject. Coll refuses to follow this tired tune, and the result is masterful." -- The Guardian "Steve Coll's Directorate S is the sequel to his magisterial Ghost Wars . Both books rest on a foundation of serious scholarship and Coll's extraordinary access, to individual CIA officers mostly, but also to many others. These notably included members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, where Directorate S was the name given to the branch of the agency "devoted to secret operations in support of the Taliban, Kashmiri guerrillas, and other violent Islamic radicals". Every assertion is carefully sourced and checked. This book is in the finest traditions of American investigative journalism. Coll is the thinking man's Michael Wolff." -- Sherard Cowper- Coles, Times of London
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-470649
Dewey Decimal
958.104/7373
Dewey Edition
23
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