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88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary / Robert L. Grenier.
Van Pelt Library DS371.413 G75 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grenier, Robert (Robert L.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grenier, Robert (Robert L.).
- Grenier, Robert.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Personal narratives, American.
- Relations.
- Politics and government.
- Secret service.
- Pakistan.
- United States.
- Afghanistan.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Secret service.
- Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.
- Intelligence officers.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Biography.
- Taliban.
- Afghanistan--Politics and government--21st century.
- Pakistan--Relations--United States.
- United States--Relations--Pakistan.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Eighty eight days to Kandahar
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476712079
- 1476712077
- OCLC:
- 883146698
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