The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti5/19/2023 ![]() That's understandable, due to the difficulty of getting on-the-record statements from people involved in covert action and the intelligence world, but it does restrict the completeness.īottom line: I enjoyed it. The book also suffers from a little bit of tunnel-vision-it follows the arc of several figures, but doesn't (in my opinion) give a broad assessment or characterization of programs overall. I think the editing could have been better from a continuity and cohesiveness standpoint. In a few places it jumps forward or backwards in time suddenly. The chronology of the book is sometimes a bit jarring. ![]() It also examines the misadventures of using private contractors to do the US government's dirty work, and of becoming involved with unsavory groups or states to achieve short-term goals, which will have long-term negative consequences. This book does a fine job laying-bear the drawbacks of an increasingly militarized CIA and increasingly covert DoD. ![]()
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