EAN: 9780718194499

DIRECTORATE S - STEVE COLL KARTONIERT (TB)

From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars  this is the full story of
America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016. In the wake of the
terrible shock of 9 11  the C.I.A. scrambled to work out how to destroy Bin Laden and his
associates. The C.I.A. had long familiarity with Afghanistan and had worked closely with the
Taliban to defeat the Soviet Union there. A tangle of assumptions  old contacts  favours and
animosities were now reactivated. Superficially the invasion was quick and efficient  but Bin
Laden's successful escape  together with that of much of the Taliban leadership  and a
catastrophic failure to define the limits of NATO's mission in a tough  impoverished country
the size of Texas  created a quagmire which lasted many years. At the heart of the problem lay
'Directorate S'  a highly secretive arm of the Pakistan state which had its own views on the
Taliban and Afghanistan's place in a wider competition for influence between Pakistan  India
and China  and which assumed that the U.S.A. and its allies would soon be leaving. Steve Coll's
remarkable new book tells a powerful  bitter story of just how badly foreign policy decisions
can go wrong and of many lives lost.

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