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Directorate S

Directorate S

The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

by Steve Coll
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/02/2018

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The international bestselling account 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. 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 has now 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.
ISBN:
9781846146602
9781846146602
Category:
Espionage & secret services
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-02-2018
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
784
Dimensions (mm):
240x156x50mm
Weight:
1.31kg

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