Owen L. Sirrs

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (eBook, ePUB)

Covert Action and Internal Operations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), covering the period from its inception in 1948 up to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317196082
• Artikelnr.: 45434053

Autorenporträt

Owen L. Sirrs is Adjunct Professor at the University of Montana, USA, and the author of two previous books, including, most recently, The Egyptian Intelligence Service (Routledge 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: ISI's Early Days
1. ISI's origins
2. ISI and Anglo-American intelligence
3. Covert action in northeast India
4. Intelligence and the 1965 War
PART II: ISI at War
5. ISI's domestic missions under Ayub
6. Intelligence failures in East Pakistan
7. Intelligence and the 1971 war
8. ISI under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Part III: Overreach
9. Zia ul-Haq, Afghanistan, and ISI
10. ISI's Afghanistan war
Part IV: Adrift
11. Intelligence and democracy: 1988-1999
12. Insurgency in Kashmir and Punjab
13. Escalating tensions with India
14. Pakistan's Afghan quagmire
15. ISI and Osama bin Laden
PART V: Confrontation
16. Intelligence and nuclear weapons in South Asia
17. ISI-CIA liaison after 9/11
18. Friction in ISI-CIA relations
19. ISI's internal security missions
20. US operations in Pakistan
21. ISI and the demise of bin Laden
Conclusions