Jason Burke

Blind into battle

After 16 years of ignorance and blunder, the US seems back where it started in this notoriously unconquerable land

issue 03 February 2018

  • Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret War in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016

    Steve Coll

    Allen Lane, pp. 757

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