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What we won America's secret war in Afghanistan, 1979-89

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  • "In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquartersa simple message: ""We Won."" It was an understated coda to the most successfulcovert intelligence operation in American history.In What We Won, CIA and National Security Council veteran Bruce Riedel tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to be the final battle of the cold war. He seeks to answer one simple question-why did this intelligence operation succeed so brilliantly?Riedel has the vantage point few others can offer: He was ensconc..."

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