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Grenier, Robert (Robert L.)
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Grenier, Robert (Robert L.)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Biography.
Taliban.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Secret service.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Relations -- Pakistan.
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Pakistan -- Relations -- United States.
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88 days to Kandahar ...
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88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary / Robert L. Grenier.
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Grenier, Robert (Robert L.)
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Subjects
Grenier, Robert (Robert L.)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Biography.
Taliban.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Secret service.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Relations -- Pakistan.
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Pakistan -- Relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9781476712079 (hardcover) :
1476712077 (hardcover)
Description:
xix, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Contents:
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.
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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.
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Aiea Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
958.10478 Gr
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
958.10478 Gr
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
958.10478 Grenier
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Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
958.10478 Gr
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Waipahu Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
958.10478 Gr
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