Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
Directorate S
The C. I. A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll: Directorate S (2019, Penguin Books, Limited)
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784 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 2019 by Penguin Books, Limited.
Subjects
- United states, central intelligence agency
- Afghan war, 2001-
- United states, military policy
- United states, foreign relations, middle east
- Middle east, foreign relations, united states