The Way of the Knife
The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
New York : Penguin Press, 2013.
Format: Book
Description: xii, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
An account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.
Contents:
The war beyond -- Permission to kill -- A marriage among spies -- Cloak-and-dagger men -- Rumsfeld's spies -- The angry bird -- A true Pashtun -- Convergence -- A war by proxy -- The base -- Games without frontiers -- The old man's return -- The scalpel's edge -- The scramble for Africa -- The unraveling -- The doctor and the sheikh -- Fire from the sky -- A spy in leisure world.
Subjects:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
United States. Department of Defense.
National security -- United States -- Decision making.
Interagency coordination -- United States.
United States -- Military policy -- Decision making.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
United States. Department of Defense.
National security -- United States -- Decision making.
Interagency coordination -- United States.
United States -- Military policy -- Decision making.
ISBN:
9781594204807 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GOV Military Maz | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-366) and index.