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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Coll, Steve.     Subjects     United States. Central Intelligence Agency.     Pakistan. Inter Services Intelligence.     Taliban.     Qaida (Organization)     Afghan War, 2001-2021     Military intelligence -- United States.     Military intelligence -- Pakistan.     United States -- Military relations -- Pakistan.     Pakistan -- Military relations -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Coll, Steve.       by title:      Directorate S : the ...       by call number:      958.1047 C697d     Search the Web     Coll, Steve.     United States. Central Intelligence Agency.     Pakistan. Inter Services Intelligence.     Taliban.     Qaida (Organization)     Afghan War, 2001-2021     Military intelligence -- United States.     Military intelligence -- Pakistan.     United States -- Military relations -- Pakistan.     Pakistan -- Military relations -- United States.       MARC Display

Directorate S : the C.I.A. and America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Steve Coll. by Coll, Steve. Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018. Call #: 958.1047 C697d Subjects United States. Central Intelligence Agency.   Pakistan. Inter Services Intelligence.   Taliban.   Qaida (Organization)   Afghan War, 2001-2021   Military intelligence -- United States.   Military intelligence -- Pakistan.   United States -- Military relations -- Pakistan.   Pakistan -- Military relations -- United States. ISBN:  9781594204586 (hc.) Description:  xxiii, 757 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-736) and index. Contents:  Part one. Blind into battle, September 2001-December 2001 -- "Something has happened to Khalid" -- Judgment day -- Friends like these -- Risk management -- Catastrophic success -- Part two. Losing the peace, 2002-2006 -- Small change -- Taliban for Karzai -- The enigma -- "His rules were different than our rules" -- Mr. Big -- Ambassador vs. Ambassador -- Digging a hole in the ocean -- Radicals -- Part thee. The best intentions, 2006-2009 -- Suicide detectives -- Plan Afghanistan -- Murder and the deep state -- Hard data -- Tough love -- Terror and the deep state -- The new big dogs -- Losing Karzai -- A war to give people a chance -- Part four. The end of illusion, 2010-2014 -- The one-man C.I.A. -- The conflict resolution cell -- Kayani 2.0 -- Lives and limbs -- Kayani 3.0 -- Hostages -- Dragon's breath -- Martyrs Day -- Fight and talk -- The Afghan hand -- Homicide Division -- Self-inflicted wounds -- Coups d'état -- Epilogue: Victim impact statements. Summary:  Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2003 book Ghost Wars, Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11. Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as "Directorate S," was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan's sphere of influence. After 9/11, with the U. S. deploying troops and provided aid to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the U.S. was set on a slow-motion collision course with Pakistan. The war in Afghanistan would falter badly because of military hubris at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources and provocation in the Muslim world caused by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. But, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan was doomed because of the failure of the United States to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.'s "Directorate S". This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and across both the Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some of the most prominent military and political figures. A sprawling American tragedy, the war was an open clash of arms but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and subterranean violence. Coll brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, local and global, propulsive and painstaking. The definitive explanation of how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Steve Coll is the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 958.1047 C697d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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