rendition, detention and interrogation. to develop the extensive program that intelligence officials called R.D.I.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 attacks, seeking to gather intelligence on Al Qaeda and its leaders the Bush administration pushed the C.I.A. He explores the set of forces - political, legal and technological - that gave rise to America’s increasing reliance on this tactic as a response to terrorism. Mazzetti focuses on the distinctive, modern-day practice of targeted killing, particularly through the use of drone strikes. The Pentagon has long engaged in spying.īut Mr. carried out large-scale paramilitary operations in Vietnam and supported them in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mazzetti, a national security correspondent for The New York Times, acknowledges in his book. Such actions are not unprecedented, as Mr. Mazzetti writes, “for the United States to carry out killing operations at the ends of the earth than at any time in its history.”
11 attacks, America has gradually developed a new way of war, one that thoroughly relies on secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon. The virtue of Mark Mazzetti’s new book, “The Way of the Knife,” is the way in which it perceptively ties all these events together and paints the larger picture: Since the Sept. Over the last couple of years, numerous authors have reported on specific aspects of America’s counterterrorism effort, including the Navy SEAL team operations, the bin Laden raid, other targeted killings and the drone strikes.
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