What We Won: Americas Secret War in Afghanistan 197989

In February 1989, The CIAs 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 American secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th red Army in the conflict that proved to be the final and decisive battle of the Cold War. By answering the question-why did this intelligence operation succeed so brilliantly?-Riedel presents a nuanced narrative about how, counterintuitively, America won this intelligence battle.
about the authorbruce riedel is senior fellow and director of the brookings intelligence project. Riedel joined brookings following a thirty-year career at the central intelligence agency. He served as a senior adviser to four U.S. Presidents on South Asia and the Middle East, working as a senior member of the National security Council. In 2009 President Obama made him Chairman of a strategic review of American policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is author of the brookings best seller the search for A1 Qaeda: its leadership, ideology, and future..