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Registro 17 de 3853
Clasificación:
958.1047 G827
Título:
88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary. --
Variante de título:
Eighty eight days to Kandahar : a CIA diary. --
Imp / Ed.:
Nueva York, NY, Estados Unidos : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Descripción:
xv, 443 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
Contenido:
Author's note. -- List of maps. -- Cast of principal characters. -- Part One: inflection Point. -- 1. The plan. -- 2. The Subversive. -- Part Two: The road to war: Pakistan, the Taliban, and Al-Qa'ida. -- 3. The best of times. -- 4. Warnings and forebodings. -- 5. romancing the Taliban. -- 6. The war that never was. -- 7. The outlier. -- 8. Countdown. -- Part Three: the first American-Afghan war. -- 9. Non-negotiable demands. -- 10. Charting the course. -- 11. Perfidious albion. -- 12. A dip in the shark tank. -- 13. Vox Clamantis. --14. A fall form grace. -- 15. The wages of sin. -- 16. Son of kings. -- 17. No return. -- 18. Son of the lion. -- 19. "As files to wanton boys". -- 20 The ambush. -- 21. Dress rehearsal. -- 22. Nuclear nightmares. -- 23. The prodigal. -- 24. -- Enemies without, enemies within. -- 25. Salvation. -- 26. Entering the rapids. -- 27. Cataract. -- 28. A wilderness of mirrors. -- 29. Redemption and vindication. -- 30. Serendipity to inevitability. -- 31. Earthly rewards. -- 32. Badlands. -- 34. The convergence. -- 35. The escape. -- Part Four: Pakistan, Al-Qa'ida, and the wider war. -- 36. The Czar. -- 37. Distraction in the east. -- 38. Days of hope and promise. -- 39. The poet. -- 40. The public and the personal. -- 41. The reckoning. -- 42. The sage. -- 43. Flirting with Armageddon. -- Part five: Postscript: once and future wars. -- 44. Premonitions. -- 45. The unraveling. -- 46. Acceptance. -- Acknowledgements. -- Photo credits. -- Index. --
Resumen:
Tomado de la Solapa: 88 days to Kandahar is the improbable, true story of America's first war in Afghanistan, Robert Grenier's war plan after 9/11, approved by President George W. Bush, led to a "final" but fleeting victory. Grenier relieves the southern campaign, a CIA war, which drove al-Qa'ida and the Taliban from its capital, Kandahar, in just 88 days. Here we encounter CIA operatives, friends and subordinates, sent to join anti anti-Taliban Afghan warlords as they face annihilation by the far more numerous Taliban; General Tommy Franks, who bridles at CIA control of "his war; General "Jafar Amin", a gruff Pakistani intelligence officer who saves Grenier form career suicide; Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's brilliant ambassador to the U.S, who warns her government, in vain, of the alQa'ida threat; "Mark", the CIA operator who guides Gul Agha Shirzai to victory over the Taliban; General Kayani, soon to be the most powerful man in Pakistan, who struggles with Grenier's demands while trying to protect his country; and future president-courages, petulant, a man of vacillating moods. The war is won despite Washington bureaucrats who divert resources, deny military support, and undermine the only Afghan allies capable of winning. Later, Grenier, as director of the CIA's role in the Iraq War, watched initial victory squandered. His last command was of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center (CTC), as the Taliban reemerged Afghanistan and Pakistan descended into civil violence. Refusing White House demands that would place his people in legal jeopardy, Grenier clashed with his CIA bosses, was forced out of TCT, and soon resigned. Future success against international terrorism, Grenier concludes, will require relearning the lessons of our initial defeat of the Taliban.
ISBN:
9781476712079

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