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ISBN10: 0815725957, ISBN13: 9780815725954, [publisher: Brookings Institution Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: 'We Won.' It was an understated coda to the most successful covert intelligence operation in American history.In What We Won, CIA and National Security Council veteran Bruce Riedel tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to be the final battle of the cold war. He seeks to answer one simple question-why did this intelligence operation succeed so brilliantly Riedel has the vantage point few others can offer: He was ensconced in the CIA's Operations Center when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979. The invasion took the intelligence community by surprise. But the response, initiated by Jimmy Carter and accelerated by Ronald Reagan, was a masterful intelligence enterprise.Many books have been written about intelligence failures-from Pearl Harbor to 9/11. Much less has been written about how and why intelligence operations succeed. The answer is complex. It involves both the weaknesses and mistakes of America's enemies, as well as good judgment and strengths of the United States.Riedel introduces and explores the complex personalities pitted in the war-the Afghan communists, the Russians, the ...
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