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 his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghosting Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the particular first time the epic and 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 operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often within direct opposition, with I. S. I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a very 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 nations, led by the U. S., deployed troops or provided help to Afghanistan in an work to remove the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the U. S. was wear an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan.
Today we can say that the battle in Afghanistan would falter badly as a result of military hubris at the particular highest levels of the Government, 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 has been doomed as a result 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 ratios, which endured over a decade and across both Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple key intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some 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 subterranean violence.
Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the particular gaze of the American public. Along 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 will be the definitive explanation of exactly how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict within South Asia. Nothing less compared to a forensic examination of the individual and political forces that form world history, Directorate S is really a total masterpiece of both investigative and narrative journalism.
Prior to 9/11, the usa had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often within direct opposition, with I. S. I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a very 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 nations, led by the U. S., deployed troops or provided help to Afghanistan in an work to remove the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the U. S. was wear an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan.
Today we can say that the battle in Afghanistan would falter badly as a result of military hubris at the particular highest levels of the Government, 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 has been doomed as a result 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 ratios, which endured over a decade and across both Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple key intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some 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 subterranean violence.
Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the particular gaze of the American public. Along 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 will be the definitive explanation of exactly how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict within South Asia. Nothing less compared to a forensic examination of the individual and political forces that form world history, Directorate S is really a total masterpiece of both investigative and narrative journalism.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"[A]journalistic work of genius... Coll succeeds in all levels... Coll is masterful with plumbing the depths of agencies and even sects within both Afghanistan and Pakistan... In this age of fake news, Coll remains above this all, this time around delivering an impeccably researched history of "diplomacy at the greatest numbers of government within Washington, Islamabad, and even Kabul. " : Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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