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88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary
Title
88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary / Robert L. Grenier.
ISBN
9781476712079
1476712077
9781476712093
9781476712086
1476712085
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
Physical Description
xix, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
The director of the American-Afghan war describes how he orchestrated the defeat of the Taliban in the region by forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and the Pakistani intelligence service.
Variant and related titles
Eighty eight days to Kandahar.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2015
Contents
Inflection point. The plan ; The subversive
The road to war : Pakistan, the Taliban, and al-Qa'ida. The best of times ; Warnings and forebodings ; Romancing the Taliban ; The war that never was ; The outlier ; Countdown
The first American-Afghan War. Non-negotiable demands ; Charting the course ; Perfidious Albion ; A dip in the shark tank ; Vox clamantis ; A fall from grace ; The wages of sin ; Son of kings ; No return ; Son of the lion ; "As flies to wanton boys..." ; The ambush ; Dress rehearsal ; Nuclear nightmares ; The prodigal ; Enemies without, enemies within ; Salvation ; Entering the rapids ; Cataract ; A wilderness of mirrors; Redemption and vindication ; Serendipity to inevitability ; Earthly rewards ; Badlands ; Twin reprieves ; The convergence ; The escape
Pakistan, Al-Qa'ida, and the wider war. The czar ; Distraction in the east ; Days of hope and promise ; The poet ; The public and the personal ; The reckoning ; The sage ; Flirting with Armageddon
Once and future wars. Premonitions ; The unraveling ; Acceptance.
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