Directorate S: America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Nominated for the 2018 Nationwide Guide Award for Nonfiction, this work delves into the intense battle intelligence operations between Afghanistan, America, and Pakistan, shedding light on the intricate workings of the navy and directorate.

Discover the captivating tale of America's battle against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11, as told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars . Explore the epic saga of the country's intelligence, navy, and diplomatic efforts in this gripping narrative.

After the events of 9/11, America found itself entangled in a complex web of covert operations in Afghanistan. While the US aimed to suppress extremists, a secretive branch within the Pakistani intelligence agency, known as "Directorate S," was clandestinely backing and empowering the Taliban to expand Pakistan's influence. As the US led a coalition of fifty-nine nations to combat the Taliban and Al Qaeda post-9/11, tensions rose as America and Pakistan unknowingly moved towards a collision course.

In the present day we all know that the warfare in Afghanistan would falter badly due to navy hubris on the highest ranges of the Pentagon, the drain on sources and provocation within the Muslim world brought on by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. However greater than something, as Coll makes painfully clear, the warfare in Afghanistan was doomed due to the failure of america to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.’s “Directorate S”. This was a swirling and shadowy battle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and throughout each the Bush and Obama administrations, involving a number of secret intelligence businesses, a litany of incongruous methods and techniques, and dozens of gamers, together with a few of the most outstanding navy and political figures. A sprawling American tragedy, the warfare was an open conflict of arms but in addition a covert melee of concepts, secrets and techniques, and subterranean violence.

Coll excavates this grand battle, which passed off away from the gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed experience, authentic analysis, and a spotlight to element, he brings to life a story without delay huge and complicated, native and international, propulsive and painstaking.

That is the definitive rationalization of how America got here to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable battle in South Asia. Nothing lower than a forensic examination of the non-public and political forces that form world historical past,
Directorate S is a whole masterpiece of each investigative and narrative journalism.