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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British Intelligence on Afghanistan written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317132017
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan written by Jon Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moran concentrates on three aims: to provide an overview of British military intelligence operations in the last 30 years which concentrates on operational not strategic intelligence; to examine the debates over ethics and effectiveness that have followed these operations; and to examine the increasing attempts to place military intelligence under the same type of regulation that police and security intelligence operations have been subject to. As such, he provides a timely overview of intelligence effectiveness and ethics in this area of heightened interest and relevance in terms of the recent UK deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the light of the UK Strategic Defence Review. This book is not a philosophical discussion of military ethics; nor is it a study of operations alone. In the light of experiences from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan, it examines the debates over effectiveness which have surrounded British military intelligence activities whilst tying these debates closely to the ethical issues they raise. Each stage of operations is evaluated in context. Interest will cut across disciplines and as such this book will appeal to intelligence, counter-terrorism, military studies, politics, human rights and philosophy practitioners, scholars and students.
Author : Anthony Farrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book British Intelligence on Afghanistan and Its Frontiers, C. 1888-1946 written by Anthony Farrington and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Intelligence and Security Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101646925
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (469 download)
Download or read book The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq written by Great Britain. Intelligence and Security Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at the handing and interrogation of detainees from the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Its purpose is to establish: whether UK intelligence personnel were involved in or witnessed any abuses; whether UK intelligence personnel were sufficiently well trained; when Ministers were informed of staff concerns about the abuse of detainees. It concludes that out of approximately 2,000 interviews there were fewer than 15 cases of potential breaches of UK policy or the international Conventions. These cases occurred in difficult and unusual operating conditions where lack of specific training added to the problems. The difficulty of finding the balance between the duty to obtain intelligence and abide by the rules is further complicated by the different ways US and UK authorities interpret the Conventions.
Author : Panagiotis Dimitrakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773377X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Secret War in Afghanistan written by Panagiotis Dimitrakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have long remained unclear; it is a confidential narrative of clandestine correspondence, covert operations and failed intelligence. The Secret War in Afghanistan undertakes a full analysis of recently declassified intelligence archives in order to asses Anglo-American secret intelligence and diplomacy relating to the invasion of Afghanistan and unveil the Cold War realities behind the rhetoric. Rooted at every turn in close examination of the primary evidence, it outlines the secret operations of the CIA, MI6 and the KGB, and the full extent of the aid and intelligence from the West which armed and trained the Afghan fighters. Drawing from US, UK and Russian archives, Panagiotis Dimitrakis analyses the Chinese arms deals with the CIA, the multiple recorded intelligence failures of KGB intelligence and secret letters from the office of Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter. In so doing, this study brings a new scholarly perspective to some of the most controversial events of Cold War history. Dimitrakis also outlines the full extent of China's involvement in arming the Mujahedeen, which led to the PRC effectively fighting the Soviet Union by proxy. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of the Cold War, American History and the Modern Middle East.
Author : Colin Berry
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Deniable Agent written by Colin Berry and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far as Colin Berry's family were concerned, he'd gone to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban to market low-cost modular housing. The truth was much more complicated. In fact, Berry, a former soldier, had been recruited by British intelligence to secretly buy back weapons systems which had been delivered to the Mujahideen during their struggle against the Soviets. His work involved reconnaissance missions to remote mountain villages where he was able to see first hand the ravaging effects of decades of warfare. Back in Kabul, his attempts to train local men to fight the Taliban came to a horrific end when their mission was compromised and they were massacred before they could reach their target. In February 2003, disillusioned with the work he was doing and concerned for his own security, Berry made preparations to leave the country. He was packing his bags when two armed Afghans showed up at his hotel room. He agreed to a final meeting but by the time it had finished both Afghans were dead and Berry himself was seriously wounded. In The Deniable Agent, Colin Berry gives a riveting insight into the covert world of intelligence. He also finally reveals the truth about what happened in the Intercontinental Hotel that night and how he spent nearly a year in a stinking Afghan jail.
Author : WILLIAM. BEAVER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785905025
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)
Download or read book UNDER EVERY LEAF written by WILLIAM. BEAVER and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Ledwidge
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166710
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Losing Small Wars written by Frank Ledwidge and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking analysis of military failure and its costs examines the British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, revealing how and why it went so wrong. Original.
Author : Frank Ledwidge
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300194889
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Investment in Blood written by Frank Ledwidge and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this follow-up to his much-praised book Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Frank Ledwidge argues that Britain has paid a heavy cost - both financially and in human terms - for its involvement in the Afghanistan war. Ledwidge calculates the high price paid by British soldiers and their families, taxpayers in the United Kingdom, and, most importantly, Afghan citizens, highlighting the thousands of deaths and injuries, the enormous amount of money spent bolstering a corrupt Afghan government, and the long-term damage done to the British military's international reputation. In this hard-hitting exposé, based on interviews, rigorous on-the-ground research, and official information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Ledwidge demonstrates the folly of Britain's extended participation in an unwinnable war. Arguing that the only true beneficiaries of the conflict are development consultants, international arms dealers, and Afghan drug kingpins, he provides a powerful, eye-opening, and often heartbreaking account of military adventurism gone horribly wrong."--
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958299
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
Author : Paul Todd
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137826
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Spies, Lies and the War on Terror written by Paul Todd and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the War on Terror has seen intelligence agencies emerge out of the shadows to become major political players. 'Rendition', untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are now fast becoming the norm. Spies, Lies and the War on Terror traces the transformation of intelligence from a tool for law enforcement to a means of avoiding the law - both national and international. The new culture of victimhood in the US and among partners in the 'coalition of the willing' has crushed domestic liberties and formed a global network of extra-legal licence. State and corporate interests are increasingly fused in the new business of privatising fear. Todd & Bloch argue that the bureaucracy and narrow political goals surrounding intelligence actually have the potential to increase the terrorist threat. This lively and shocking account is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the new power of intelligence.
Author : Anita L. P. Burdett
Publisher : Cambridge Archive Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781852078553
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence written by Anita L. P. Burdett and published by Cambridge Archive Editions. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British political and military reports on Afghanistan covering the period 1919-1970.
Author : Robert Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Spying for Empire written by Robert Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Game in Central and South Asia, 1757-1947. The Story of the struggle between Russia and Britain for imperial influence over southern and central Asia.
Author : Richard James Popplewell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780714642277
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Intelligence and Imperial Defence written by Richard James Popplewell and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1995 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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ISBN 13 : 9781852078553
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence: 1939-1947 : from the outbreak of World War Two to the partition of India written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toby Harnden
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031654096X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book First Casualty written by Toby Harnden and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist reveals the dramatic true story of the CIA's Team Alpha, the first Americans to be dropped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan after 9/11. America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan—where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an eclectic band of linguists, tribal experts, and elite warriors: the first Americans to operate inside Taliban territory. Their covert mission is to track down Al- Qaeda and stop the terrorists from infiltrating the United States again. First Casualty places you with Team Alpha as the CIA rides into battle on horseback alongside the warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. In Washington, DC, few trust that the CIA men, the Green Berets, and the Americans’ outnumbered Afghan allies can prevail before winter sets in. On the ground, Team Alpha is undeterred. The Taliban is routed but hatches a plot with Al-Qaeda to hit back. Hundreds of suicidal fighters, many hiding weapons, fake a surrender and are transported to Qala-i Jangi—the “Fort of War.” Team Alpha’s Mike Spann, an ex-Marine, and David Tyson, a polyglot former Central Asian studies academic, seize America’s initial opportunity to extract intelligence from men trained by bin Laden—among them a young Muslim convert from California. The prisoners revolt and one CIA officer falls—the first casualty in America’s longest war, which will last two decades. The other CIA man shoots dead the Al-Qaeda jihadists attacking his comrade. To survive, he must fight his way out against overwhelming odds. Award-winning author Toby Harnden gained unprecedented access to all living Team Alpha members and every level of the CIA. Superbly researched, First Casualty draws on extensive interviews, secret documents, and deep reporting inside Afghanistan. As gripping as any adventure novel, yet intimate and profoundly moving, it tells how America found a winning strategy only to abandon it. Harnden reveals that the lessons of early victory and the haunting foretelling it contained—unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide attacks, and errant US bombs—were ignored, tragically fueling a twenty-year conflict. "Masterful, complex, and heartfelt, from the deeply personal to the critically strategic. Captures many lessons on many levels." —Ambassador Hank Crumpton, former senior CIA officer
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ISBN 13 : 9781852078553
Total Pages : 1023 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence: 1928-1939 : from the end of the civil war to the declaration of neutrality in World War Two written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
