In Search of Enemies - John Stockwell - Books - WW Norton & Co - 9780393057058 - November 21, 2024
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In Search of Enemies 1st edition

John Stockwell

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?[The United States? goal in Angola] was not to keep out the Cubans and Soviets but to make their imperial efforts as costly as possible to prove that, after Vietnam, we were still capable of response, however insane. It is the story that has been told, and in impressive and convincing detail, by John Stockwell, the former chief of the CIA?s Angola ?task force.? His book should not be missed. Since strategic thought survives by ignoring experience, it has a highly professional interest in avoiding accounts such as this. By the same token, all who are alarmed about the tendency toward such strategic thinking should strongly welcome Mr. Stockwell?s book.? ?John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Review of Books

In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only ?advisors,? many millions were spent, many thousands died, and many lies were told to the American people, in waging a war without purpose to American vital interests and without hope of victory.


288 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
To be released November 21, 2024
ISBN13 9780393057058
Publishers WW Norton & Co
Pages 288
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 25 mm   ·   581 g
Language English  

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