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04.22: Mark Mazzetti
2013-03-15 00:36:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can't go. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Penguin Press) is the untold story of that shadow war: a campaign that has blurred the lines between soldiers and spies and lowered the bar for waging war across the globe. America has pursued its enemies with killer drones and special operations troops; trained privateers for assassination missions and used them to set up clandestine spying networks; and relied on mercurial dictators, untrustworthy foreign intelligence services, and proxy armies. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mark Mazzetti's The Way of the Knife is an explosive, gripping account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special forces into competing covert man-hunting and killing operations.
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