Thomas has drawn on his original research in CIA archives and interviews with scores of old agency hands to evoke the urgency and uncertainty, as well as the giddiness, of the shadow wars of the 1950s and early 1960s when the country, with reason, felt itself in danger from Soviet-led Communist aggression. Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald embodied the confiden…
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare
Dinas intelijen terbesar di dunia ini melakukan blunder paling parah dalam sejarah panjang spionase berbohong tentang eksistensi senjata nuklir Irak, yang menjadi basis pengambilan keputusan politik paling keliru dalam sejarah kepresidenan AS, yakni menyerbu Irak sekaligus menumbangkan Presiden Saddam Hussein. Setelah pendudukan di Irak, terbongkar lagi skandal-skandal yang mencoreng wajah AS s…
Willem Oltmans menulis bahwa CIA memerankan bagian yang dominan dalam tragedi Gestapu 1965, dengan menggunakan tangan (Angkatan Darat/Bersenjata) militer Indonesia sendiri. Untuk itu, kehadiran buku ini merupakan sumber informasi terbaru yang selama ini tidak pernah disebutkan dalam penulisan buku sejarah Indonesia, dan diharapkan dapat menguak tabir yang selama ini dibungkam atau sengaja dipen…
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
James Jesus Angleton's involvement with some of the most notorious counterespionage events
The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policymakers. Lars-Erik Cederman argues that this lack of conceptual preparation stems from two tendencies in conventional theorizing. First, the dominant focus on cohesive nation-states as the only actors of world politics obscures crucial differences between the state…
For one hundred years the Netherlands' Plant Protection Service has been operating in an incessantly changing environment. This book presents an overview of developments in plant protection policies in the 20th century and the prospects for the coming decade.
In 1945, as the horrors of the Second World War finally came to a close, few would have guessed that less than five years later the United States would be locked into something called a Cold War with its former ally, the Soviet Union. But by 1947, that's exactly what happened. Somehow the American viewpoint had changed: now Russia was the enemy.
At the midterm of his Adminis tration. President Ronald Reagan is con ducting a foreign policy that differs markedly In style and substance from what he espoused upon entering office. Ideology has retreated somewhat before pragmatism. Political pressures have dic tated a greater de gree of moderation. Through experience. some of it painful, the President who came in to office preoccupied with d…