Directorate S : the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Steve Coll.
Directorate S : the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Steve Coll.
Directorate S : the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Steve Coll.
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New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
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G 2018/3757
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English
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Physical content
xxiii, 757 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part one. Blind into battle, September 2001-December 2001 -- "Something has happened to Khalid" -- Judgment day -- Friends like these -- Risk management -- Catastrophic success -- Part two. Losing the peace, 2002-2006 -- Small change -- Taliban for Karzai -- The enigma -- "His rules were different t...
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New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
Date Published
2018.
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"Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation with, although often in direct opposition to, I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the United States was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as "Directorat...
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Directorate S : the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Steve Coll.
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C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-736) and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/3757
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74VKVAmAAVVO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVAmAAVVO
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ISBN
9781594204586
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958.1047373
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991024172819402626
