Intelligence, Secrecy, and Accountability: Getting the Balance Wrong for Sixty Years
John Prados, The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness (The New Press, 2017) ...
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Arnold Isaacs | 01.10.18 | Book Reviews
John Prados, The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness (The New Press, 2017) ...
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Harlan K. Ullman, Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts (Naval Institute...
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Now that Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s much-heralded documentary has revived a national...
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In a new book, Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, former CIA senior analyst John Nixon gives new details into the interrogation of the former Iraqi dictator. But the book’s most striking feature is the picture it draws of the circumstances that led to the decision to go to war.
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Arnold Isaacs reviews Retire the Colors: Veterans & Civilians on Iraq & Afghanistan.
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