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Author Riedel, Bruce

Title What We Won : America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979-89 / Bruce Riedel
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 189 pages)
Contents Introduction and acknowledgments -- Part 1. The players -- The Afghan communists -- The main enemy : the Soviets -- The Afghan Mujahedin -- The Pakistanis : Zia's war -- The Saudis : financiers and volunteers -- Part 2. The U.S. war -- Jimmy Carter's war -- Reagan and Casey -- Endgames without end -- Lessons of the secret war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT United States. Central Intelligence Agency fast
Subject National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Espionage, American -- Afghanistan -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Diplomatic relations
Espionage, American
Military policy
National security
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115
Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001522
United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations
United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan
Subject Afghanistan
Soviet Union
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815725855
081572585X
1306841860
9781306841863