Directorate S

Directorate S

By
Steve Coll
Steve Coll
2018 • 784 pages

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Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.

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Incredibly sourced and detailed as usual from Coll. I thought there would be more about the inner workings of ISI but the bulk of the book is focused on various US actors and entities.

July 15, 2018

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