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Index
Cover
Dedication
Author’s Note
List of Maps
Cast of Principal Characters
Part One: Inflection Point
1. The Plan
2. The Subversive
Part Two: The Road to War: Pakistan, the Taliban, and al-Qa’ida
3. The Best of Times
4. Warnings and Forebodings
5. Romancing the Taliban
6. The War That Never Was
7. The Outlier
8. Countdown
Part Three: The First American-Afghan War
9. Non-Negotiable Demands
10. Charting the Course
11. Perfidious Albion
12. A Dip in the Shark Tank
13. Vox Clamantis
14. A Fall from Grace
15. The Wages of Sin
16. Son of Kings
17. No Return
18. Son of the Lion
19. “As Flies to Wanton Boys . . .”
20. The Ambush
21. Dress Rehearsal
22. Nuclear Nightmares
23. The Prodigal
24. Enemies Without, Enemies Within
25. Salvation
26. Entering the Rapids
27. Cataract
28. A Wilderness of Mirrors
29. Redemption and Vindication
30. Serendipity to Inevitability
31. Earthly Rewards
32. Badlands
33. Twin Reprieves
34. The Convergence
35. The Escape
Part Four: Pakistan, Al-Qa’ida, and the Wider War
36. The Czar
37. Distraction in the East
38. Days of Hope and Promise
39. The Poet
40. The Public and the Personal
41. The Reckoning
42. The Sage
43. Flirting with Armageddon
Part Five: Postscript: Once and Future Wars
44. Premonitions
45. The Unraveling
46. Acceptance
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
About the Author
Index
Copyright
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