Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Steve Coll P
by Steve Coll P
- Hardcover: 784 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Press (February 6, 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1594204586
- ISBN-13: 978-1594204586
- Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.6 x 9.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
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Resuming the narrative of their Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghosting Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the particular first time the epic plus enthralling story of America's cleverness, military, and diplomatic efforts in order to defeat Al Qaeda and the particular Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11
Prior to 9/11, the usa had been carrying out small-scale covert functions in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I. H. I., the Pakistani intelligence company. While the US was attempting to quell extremists, a highly deceptive and compartmentalized wing of We. S. I., known as "Directorate S, " was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, led by the U. H., deployed troops or provided help to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban plus Al Qaeda, the U. H. was wear an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan.
Today we can say that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly due to military hubris at the particular highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources plus provocation in the Muslim globe caused by the U. H. -led invasion of Iraq, plus corruption. But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan has been doomed due to the failure associated with the United States to digest the motivations and intentions associated with I. S. I. 's "Directorate S". This was a swirling plus shadowy struggle of historic ratios, which endured over a 10 years and across both the Bush plus Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany associated with incongruous strategies and tactics, plus dozens of players, including a few of the most prominent military and political figures. A massive American tragedy, the war has been an open clash of hands but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and undercover violence.
Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the particular gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed expertise, original research, plus attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, nearby and global, propulsive and painstaking.
This is the definitive explanation of exactly how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less compared to a forensic examination of the personal and political forces that condition world history, Directorate S is really a complete masterpiece of both investigative plus narrative journalism.
Prior to 9/11, the usa had been carrying out small-scale covert functions in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I. H. I., the Pakistani intelligence company. While the US was attempting to quell extremists, a highly deceptive and compartmentalized wing of We. S. I., known as "Directorate S, " was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, led by the U. H., deployed troops or provided help to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban plus Al Qaeda, the U. H. was wear an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan.
Today we can say that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly due to military hubris at the particular highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources plus provocation in the Muslim globe caused by the U. H. -led invasion of Iraq, plus corruption. But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan has been doomed due to the failure associated with the United States to digest the motivations and intentions associated with I. S. I. 's "Directorate S". This was a swirling plus shadowy struggle of historic ratios, which endured over a 10 years and across both the Bush plus Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany associated with incongruous strategies and tactics, plus dozens of players, including a few of the most prominent military and political figures. A massive American tragedy, the war has been an open clash of hands but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and undercover violence.
Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the particular gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed expertise, original research, plus attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, nearby and global, propulsive and painstaking.
This is the definitive explanation of exactly how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less compared to a forensic examination of the personal and political forces that condition world history, Directorate S is really a complete masterpiece of both investigative plus narrative journalism.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"[A]journalistic masterpiece... Coll succeeds on all levels... Coll is masterful at plumbing related the depths of firms and sects within each Afghanistan and Pakistan... In this era of fake news, Coll remains above it all, this time delivering a great impeccably researched history associated with "diplomacy at the maximum levels of government in Washington, Islamabad, and Kabul. " - Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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