America's Secret War by Friedman, George -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE CONTENTS DEDICATION PREFACE PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1

Afghanistan, Money, and Saudi Arabia The Reagan Intensification Desert Storm and the Birth of Al Qaeda

CHAPTER 2

The Problem The Strategy The Organization and Its Tactics

CHAPTER 3

The End of the Cold War and the ... The Post–Cold War World Rogue States and Systemic Threats The United States, Al Qaeda, and Terrorism

CHAPTER 4

The Organization of the Intelligence Community The Myth of Sourcing The Intelligence Process as Defect

CHAPTER 5

The End of the Cold War and U.S. Strategic Thinking The Search for a Strategy Rumsfeld Takes Control The Al Qaeda Wild Card

CHAPTER 6

Commercial Airliners as Strategic Weapons Planning the Seizure Deploying and Preparing Selecting the Aircraft The Assault Mysteries

CHAPTER 7

Homeland Defense, the Soviet Union and McCarthyism War or Crime? Organizing for Homeland Defense

CHAPTER 8

First Thoughts on Afghanistan Planning the Afghan War Recruiting the Russians

CHAPTER 9

Renting an Army: Russia Renting an Army: Iran Making Contact The Buildup War Taliban Prepares for War Boots on the Ground Karzai

CHAPTER 10

The Battle of Tora Bora The Pakistani Crisis The Big Fear The Axis of Evil Searching for a Night of the Long Knives Beyond Long Knives

CHAPTER 11

The Saudi Dilemma The Iraqi Lever Strategic Decisions The European Game Countdown to War

CHAPTER 12

Combat Intelligence Failures

CHAPTER 13

The Global Counteroffensive Abu Ghraib and Redefining the War

CONCLUSION COPYRIGHT