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Foxtrot in Kandahar : a memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the inception of America's longest war / Duane Evans.
Van Pelt Library DS371.413 .E87 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Duane, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evans, Duane, 1956-.
- Evans, Duane.
- Taliban.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Personal narratives, American.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Special operations (Military science).
- Afghanistan--Kandahār.
- Pakistan.
- Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.
- Intelligence officers.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns--Afghanistan--Kandahār.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Secret service--United States.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Personal narratives, American.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Special operations (Military science)--Pakistan.
- Special operations (Military science)--Afghanistan--Kandahār.
- Local Subjects:
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 172 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the inception of America's longest war
- Place of Publication:
- El Dorado Hills, CA : Savas Beatie LLC, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans is dispatched to Pakistan to "get something going in the South," still under the Taliban's sway and al-Qa'ida. With no "Southern Alliance" for the U.S. to support, a new strategy is called for. This is the true story of Evans's unexpected journey from the pristine halls of Langley to the badlands of southern Afghanistan. Within hours after he watched the horrors of 9/11 unfold during a chance visit to FBI Headquarters, Evans begins a personal and relentless quest to become part of the U.S. response against al-Qa'ida. This memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan, first as part of the advanced element of CIA's Echo team supporting Hamid Karzai, and finally as leader of the under-resourced and often overlooked Foxtrot team. Relying on rusty military skills from Evans's days as a Green Beret and brandishing a traded-for rifle, he moves toward Kandahar, one of only a handful of Americans pushing forward across the desert in the company of Pashtun warriors into some of the most dangerous, yet mesmerizingly beautiful, landscape on earth. The ultimate triumph of the CIA and Special Forces teams, when absolutely everything was on the line, is tempered by the US tragedy that catalyzed what is now America's longest war. Evans's very personal adventure that unfolds within the pages of Foxtrot in Kandahar: A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War, which concludes with an analysis of opportunities lost in the years since his time in Afghanistan, should be required reading for everyone interested in modern warfare."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Headquarters
- Chapter 1 Outrage 1
- Chapter 2 Plenty of Parking 5
- Chapter 3 Roots 9
- Chapter 4 A Day Late 12
- Chapter 5 A Threshold Crossed, A Spark Ignited 17
- Chapter 6 Mission Over Process 21
- Chapter 7 Change Comes Hard 24
- Chapter 8 "Pasha" 29
- Chapter 9 Suspicious Minds 35
- Chapter 10 New Mission 38
- Chapter 11 Pakistan on My Mind 42
- Chapter 12 Saying Goodbye 45
- Part 2 Pakistan
- Chapter 13 Islamabad 51
- Chapter 14 Karzai 55
- Chapter 15 A Full Up Team 59
- Chapter 16 A Devoted Man 63
- Chapter 17 Off Again, On Again 65
- Chapter 18 New Team, New Mission 68
- Chapter 19 A Question of Leadership 70
- Chapter 20 By the Seat of Our Pants 73
- Part 3 Afghanistan
- Chapter 21 There Be Snakes 79
- Chapter 22 Infiltration 82
- Chapter 23 Reflections on Leadership 87
- Chapter 24 The Best Laid Plans 95
- Chapter 25 Wagons, Ho! 99
- Chapter 26 The Longest Night 102
- Chapter 27 The Longest Day 106
- Chapter 28 Bad News 114
- Chapter 29 Takhteh-Pol Days 118
- Chapter 30 Lightning Strikes-Twice 126
- Chapter 31 Friendly Fire 129
- Chapter 32 Kandahar 131
- Chapter 33 Paying the Freight 136
- Chapter 34 Link-up with Echo Team 139
- Chapter 35 Raids, Rubble, Rocks, and Lingerie 142
- Chapter 36 Tensions Among the Tribe 146
- Chapter 37 Death from Above 148
- Chapter 38 Do I Go or Do I Stay 151
- Chapter 39 Jacobabad Revisited 154
- Chapter 40 Home 156.
- ISBN:
- 9781611213577
- 1611213576
- OCLC:
- 975088105
- Publisher Number:
- 99974041700
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