| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Inflection point -- The road to war : Pakistan, the Taliban, and al-Qa'ida -- The first American-Afghan War -- Pakistan, Al-Qa'ida, and the wider war -- Once and future wars. |
| Summary |
The First American-Afghan War, a CIA war, was approved by President George W. Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier launched the "southern campaign, "orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid Karzai's rise to power in eighty-eight chaotic days. In his gripping narrative, we meet: General Tommy Franks, who bridled at CIA control of "his "war; General "Jafar Amin, "a gruff Pakistani intelligence officer who saved Grenier from committing career suicide; Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's brilliant ambassador to the US, who tried to warn her government of the al-Qa'ida threat; "Mark, "the CIA operator who guided Gul Agha Shirzai to bloody victory over the Taliban; General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, a cautious man who became the most powerful man in Pakistan, struggling with Grenier's demands while trying to protect his country; and Hamid Karzai, the puzzling anti-Taliban insurgent, a man of courage, petulance, and vacillating moods. Grenier's enemies out in front prove only slightly more lethal than the ones behind his own lines. This first war is won despite Washington bureaucrats who divert resources, deny military support, and try to undermine the only Afghan allies capable of winning. Later, as he directed the CIA's role in the Iraq War, Grenier watched the initial victory squandered. His last command was of CIA's CounterTerrorism Center (CTC), as Bush-era terrorism policies were being repudiated, as the Taliban re-emerged in Afghanistan, and as Pakistan descended into fratricidal violence. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Grenier, Robert (Robert L.)
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Secret service.
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Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
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United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Biography.
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Taliban.
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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Pakistan -- Relations -- United States.
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United States -- Relations -- Pakistan.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. |
| Added Title |
Eighty-eight days to Kandahar : a CIA diary |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Grenier, Robert (Robert L.). 88 days to Kandahar. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition 9781476712079 (DLC) 2014036555 (OCoLC)883146698 |
| ISBN |
9781476712093 electronic bk. |
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1476712093 electronic bk. |
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9781476712079 |
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1476712077 |
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9781476712086 |
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1476712085 |
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