Confront and conceal : Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power

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Label

Confront and conceal : Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power

Title remainder

Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power

Statement of responsibility

David E. Sanger

Creator

• Sanger, David E

Author

• Sanger, David E

Subject

• Förenta staterna -- politik och förvaltning
• International relations
• Military leadership
• Military policy -- Decision making
• Obama, Barack
• Obama, Barack -- Military leadership
• Diplomatic relations
• Politics and government
• Since 2009
• United States
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017
• United States -- Military policy | Decision making
• United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
• Obama, Barack, 1961-
• Förenta staterna -- internationella relationer

Language

eng

Summary

• Inside the White House Situation Room, the newly elected Barack Obama immerses himself in the details of a remarkable new American capability to launch cyberwar against Iran--and escalates covert operations to delay the day when the mullahs could obtain a nuclear weapon. Over the next three years Obama accelerates drone attacks as an alternative to putting troops on the ground in Pakistan, and becomes increasingly reliant on the Special Forces, whose hunting of al-Qaeda illuminates the path out of an unwinnable war in Afghanistan. Confront and Conceal provides readers with a picture of an administration that came to office with the world on fire. It takes them into the Situation Room debate over how to undermine Iran's program while simultaneously trying to prevent Israel from taking military action that could plunge the region into another war. It dissects how the bin Laden raid worsened the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan. And it traces how Obama's early idealism about fighting "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan quickly turned to fatigue and frustration. One of the most trusted and acclaimed national security correspondents in the country, David Sanger of the New York Times takes readers deep inside the Obama administration's most perilous decisions: The president dispatches an emergency search team to the Gulf when the White House briefly fears the Taliban may have obtained the Bomb, but he rejects a plan in late 2011 to send in Special Forces to recover a stealth drone that went down in Iran. Obama overrules his advisers and takes the riskiest path in killing Osama bin Laden, and ignores their advice when he helps oust Hosni Mubarak from the presidency of Egypt. "The surprise is his aggressiveness," a key ambassador who works closely with Obama reports. Yet the president has also pivoted American foreign policy away from the attritional wars of the past decade, attempting to preserve America's influence with a lighter, defter touch--all while focusing on a new era of diplomacy in Asia and reconfiguring America's role during a time of economic turmoil and austerity. As the world seeks to understand whether there is an Obama Doctrine, Confront and Conceal is a fascinating, unflinching account of these complex years, in which the president and his administration have found themselves struggling to stay ahead in a world where power is diffuse and America's ability to exert control grows ever more elusive
• Examines Obama's aggressive use of innovative weapons and new tools of American power to manage a rapidly shifting world of global threats and challenges

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

327.73

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E907

LC item number

.S26 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography