by Steve Coll
Kaplan, Fred M. The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Khalilzad, Zalmay. The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Khan, Imran. Pakistan: A Personal History. London: Bantam, 2012.
Kilcullen, David. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Klaidman, Daniel. Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Laux, Douglas, and Ralph Pezzullo. Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Linschoten, Alex Strick van, and Felix Kuehn. An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban–al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970–2010. New York: C. Hurst, 2012.
Lippold, Kirk S. Front Burner: Al Qaeda’s Attack on the USS Cole. New York: PublicAffairs, 2012.
Luttrell, Marcus, and Patrick Robinson. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. New York: Little, Brown, 2007.
Mackey, Chris, and Greg Miller. The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda. New York: Little, Brown, 2004.
Malkasian, Carter. War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Maloney, Sean M. Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005.
Mann, Jim. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York: Viking, 2004.
Mazzetti, Mark. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. New York: Penguin Press, 2013.
McChrystal, Stanley A. My Share of the Task: A Memoir. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2013.
McNab, Andy. Spoken from the Front. London: Bantam, 2009.
Meyer, Dakota, and Francis J. West. Into the Fire: a Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013.
Mitchell, James, with Bill Harlow. Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America. New York: Crown Forum, 2016.
Morell, Michael J., and Bill Harlow. The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism—From al Qa’ida to ISIS. New York: Twelve, 2015.
Mudd, Philip. Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Nasr, Vali. The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat. New York: Doubleday, 2013.
Nawaz, Shuja. Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Naylor, Sean. Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015.
———. Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. New York: Berkley Books, 2005.
Neumann, Ronald E. The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2009.
Nordberg, Jenny. The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan. New York: Crown Publishers, 2014.
Owen, Mark, and Kevin Maurer. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. New York: Dutton, 2012.
Panetta, Leon E., and Jim Newton. Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace. New York: Penguin Press, 2014.
Parnell, Sean, and John R. Bruning. Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan. New York: William Morrow, 2012.
Partlow, Joshua. A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Peritz, Aki, and Eric B. Rosenbach. Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns That Killed Bin Laden and Devastated Al-Qaeda. New York: PublicAffairs, 2012.
Peters, Gretchen. Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
Pfarrer, Chuck. SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011.
Pillar, Paul R. Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Porch, Douglas. The Conquest of Morocco. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
———. The Conquest of the Sahara. London: J. Cape, 1984.
———. Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
———. The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
Rashid, Ahmed. Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. New York: Viking, 2008.
———. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
———. Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. New York: Viking, 2012.
Rice, Condoleezza. No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington. New York: Crown Publishers, 2011.
Risen, James. Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Rizzo, John Anthony. Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA. New York: Scribner, 2014.
Robinson, Linda. Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.
Rodriguez, Jose A., and Bill Harlow. Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives. New York: Threshold Editions, 2012.
Rubin, Barnett R. Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rumsfeld, Donald. Known and Unknown: A Memoir. New York: Sentinel, 2011.
Saar, Erik, and Viveca Novak. Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
Sageman, Marc. Understanding Terror Networks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Sands, Philippe. Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Scahill, Jeremy. Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. New York: Nation Books, 2013.
Schmidt, John R. The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Schmitt, Eric, and Thom Shanker. Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda. New York: Times Books, 2011.
Schofield, Carey. Inside the Pakistan Army: A Woman’s Experience on the Frontline of the War on Terror. London: Biteback Publishing, 2011.
Schroen, Gary C. First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan. New York: Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, 2005.
Scott-Clark, Cathy, and Adrian Levy. The Siege: Three Days of Terror Inside the Taj. London: Viking, 2013.
Semrau, Robert. The Taliban Don’t Wave. Mississauga, ON, Canada: Wiley, 2012.
Shah, Aqil. The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Shahzad, Syed Saleem. Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11. London: Pluto Press, 2011.
Sharma, Sita Ram. General Pervez Musharraf: Wisest Dictator and Saviour of Pakistan. New Delhi: Alfa Publications, 2006.
Siddique, Abubakar. The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan. London: Hurst, 2014.
Slahi, Moha
medou Ould, and Larry Siems. Guantánamo Diary. New York: Little, Brown, 2015.
Smith, Graeme. The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2015.
Soufan, Ali H., Daniel Freedman, and Adrian Kitzinger. The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
Southby-Tailyour, Ewen. 3 Commando Brigade: Helmand Assault. London: Ebury, 2010.
Stein, Janice Gross, and Eugene Lang. The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007.
Tankel, Stephen. Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Tapper, Jake. The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. New York: Little, Brown, 2012.
Tenet, George, and Bill Harlow. At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Tootal, Stuart. Danger Close: Commanding 3 PARA in Afghanistan. London: John Murray, 2009.
Waltz, Michael G. Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret’s Battles from Washington to Afghanistan. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Warrick, Joby. The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA. New York: Doubleday, 2011.
Waugh, Billy, and Tim Keown. Hunting the Jackal: A CIA Ground Soldier’s 50-Year Career Hunting America’s Enemies. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
Weiss, Mitch, and Kevin Maurer. No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan. New York: Berkley Caliber, 2012.
Whittle, Richard. Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Williams, Gary. SEAL of Honor: Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
Windsor, Lee, David Anderson Charters, and Brent Wilson. Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point in Canada’s Afghan Mission. Mississauga, ON, Canada: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., 2008.
Woods, Chris. Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Woodward, Bob. Obama’s Wars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
———. Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
———. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Wright, Donald P. A Different Kind of War: The United States Army in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), October 2001–September 2005. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, 2010.
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Yousaf, Mohammad, and Mark Adin. The Bear Trap. London: Leo Cooper, 1992.
Zaeef, Abdul Salam. My Life with the Taliban. Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Zakheim, Dov S. A Vulcan’s Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged the Reconstruction of Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
Journal Articles, Reports, and Manuscripts
“Abbottabad Commission Report.” Released by Al Jazeera, July 8, 2013. www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/07/20137813412615531.html.
“Afghanistan Drug Control.” General Accounting Office, March 2010.
“Afghanistan Opium Survey 2006,” United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.
“Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008,” United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.
“The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005–06.” Royal United Services Institute, December 8, 2011.
“Al Qaeda Annual Messaging Volume and Runtime, 2002-29 June 2013.” IntelCenter, http://intelcenter.com/reports/charts/AQ-Annual-Messaging-Volume-Runtime/#gs.QfTiclg.
“Al Qaeda Messaging Statistics v3.3.” IntelCenter, September 9, 2007. https://intelcenter.com/QMS-PUB-v3-3.pdf.
Belasco, Amy. “Troop Levels in the Afghan and Iraq Wars.” Congressional Research Service, July 2, 2009.
Bordin, Jeffrey. “A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility: A Red Team Study of Mutual Perceptions of Afghan National Security Force Personnel and U.S. Soldiers in Understanding and Mitigating the Phenomena of ANSF-Committed Fratricide-Murders.” N2KL Red Team, May 12, 2011. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB370/docs/Document%2011.pdf.
Call Me Ehsaan. Directed by Micah Garen. The New York Times, March 23, 2012.
“CID Report of Investigation—Final (C)/SSI—0064-2004-CID369-69280-5C1N/5Y2E.” U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, 2004.
“Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program: Declassified and Redacted Executive Summary.” Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, December 3, 2014.
“Compilation of Usama Bin Ladin Statements 1994–January 2004.” FBIS Report, 2004.
Conetta, Carl. “Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Bombing Casualties.” Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Report #13, January 18, 2002.
Cordesman, A. H., M. Allison, and J. Lemieux. “IED Metrics for Afghanistan, January 2004–September 2010.” Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 2010.
Crawford, Neta C. “Civilian Death and Injury in Afghanistan, 2001–2011.” Boston University, September 2011.
———. “Update on the Human Costs of War for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001 to mid-2016.” Costs of War Project at Brown University’s The Watson Institute, August 2016.
“Department of Defense Base Closures and Transfers in Afghanistan: The U.S. Has Disposed of $907 Million in Foreign Excess Real Property.” Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, March 2016.
“Detail of Attacks by NATO Forces/Predators in FATA.” F.A.T.A. Secretariat, released by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, January 29, 2014.
“Drone Wars Pakistan: Analysis.” New America Foundation, http://securitydata.newamerica.net/drones/pakistan-analysis.html.
“Elections 2014 (36): Some Key Documents.” Afghanistan Analysts Network, July 8, 2014. www.afghanistan-analysts.org/elections-2014-36-some-key-documents/.
Farrell, Theo, and Antonio Giustozzi. “The Taliban at War: Inside the Helmand Insurgency, 2004–2012.” International Affairs 89, no. 4 (2014), pp. 845–71.
Fearon, James D. “Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer Than Others?” Journal of Peace Research 41, no. 3 (May 2004), pp. 275–301.
Feinstein, Dianne. “Tribute to John D. Bennett.” Federation of American Scientists. Congressional Record 159, no. 26 (February 2013), http://fas.org/irp/congress/2013_cr/bennett.html.
Flynn, Michael T., Matt Pottinger, and Paul D. Batchelor, “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan.” Center for a New American Security, January 2010.
Giustozzi, Antonio, and Noor Ullah. “The Inverted Cycle: Kabul and the Strongmen’s Competition for Control over Kandahar, 2001–2006.” Central Asian Survey 26, no. 2 (September 2007), pp. 167–84.
“Glyphosate.” United States Environmental Protection Agency. www2.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate.
“Inspection Report of the DCI Counterterrorist Center Directorate of Operations.” C.I.A. Office of Inspector General, 2001.
“Interagency Assessment of the Counternarcotics Program in Afghanistan.” Inspectors General, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense, June 2007.
“Interrogation Report of David Coleman Headley.” National Investigation Agency, Government of India, derived from interrogations conducted between June 3 and June 9, 2010.
“Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan.” Stanford Law School and New York University Law School, September 2012.
Marzano, Todd. “Criticisms Associated with Operation Anaconda.” Joint Military O
perations Department, Naval War College, October 23, 2006.
“National Drug Control Strategy.” Government of Afghanistan, a British-funded report, January 2006.
Nawaz, Shuja. “Learning by Doing: The Pakistan Army’s Experience with Counterinsurgency.” The Atlantic Council, February 2011.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, July 2004.
“Office of Inspector General Report on Central Intelligence Agency Accountability Regarding Findings and Conclusions of the Report of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.” C.I.A. Office of Inspector General, 2005.
Osman, Borhan, and Anand Gopal. “Taliban Views on the Future State.” NYU Center on International Cooperation, July 2016. http://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/taliban_future_state_final.pdf.
“The Pakistani Muslim Community in England.” The Change Institute, Department for Communities and Local Government, March 2009.
Rassler, Don, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Liam Collins, Muhammad al-Obaidi, and Nelly Lahoud. “Letters from Abottobad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?” Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, May, 3 2012. www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/letters-from-abbottabad-bin-ladin-sidelined.
Reed, Alistair. “Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.” The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague, Policy Brief, May 2015.
“Report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into the Facts and Circumstances of the Assassination of Former Pakistani Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto,” April 15, 2010.
Roggio, Bill, and Linda Lundquist. “Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data.” The Long War Journal, updated May 7, 2016. www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/08/green-on-blue_attack.php.
Rubin, Barnett. “Saving Afghanistan.” Foreign Affairs, January–February 2007.
Ruttig, Thomas. “Crossing the Bridge.” Afghan Analysts Network, February 15, 2014.
Sageman, Marc. “The Insider Threat in Afghanistan in 2012.” Unclassified version in author’s files.
———. “Operation Overt: The Trans-Atlantic Airlines Liquid Bombs Plot.” Draft chapter, in author’s files.
