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The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth  Cover Image Book Book

The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth

Mazzetti, Mark (author.).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781594204807 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    xii, 381 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2013, �2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-366) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: 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

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Winkler Library 356 Maz (Text) 35864001684115 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2024-05-14

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