88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary

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ISBN: 1476712085
ISBN: 9781476712086
ISBN: 9781476712093 (ebook)
ISBN: 1476712077 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781476712079 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xix, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Summary, etc.:	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.