Confront and conceal
Subtitle: Obama's secret wars and surprising use of American power
By: David E. Sanger
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780307718037
Subjects: Politics and Government; Politics and government; National security; Military policy; Foreign relations; Military leadership; Diplomatic relations; Decision making
Description: Presents an assessment of Obama's foreign-policy challenges and achievements addressing questions from the outcomes of radically different approaches to American national security to the ways in which fiscal constraints have affected American power.
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers ... New York, in 2012"--Page vi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Afghanistan and Pakistan : the curse of unfinished business.  Blowing smoke ; "Afghan good enough" ; The bomb scare ; Getting bin Laden, losing Pakistan ; The long game : getting out, without really leaving; title: Part II: Iran : the zone of immunity.  The secret war chapter ; "Cut off the head of the snake" ; Olympic games ; "The land of lousy options"; title: Part III: Drones and cyber : the remote-control war.  The dark side of the light footprint; title: Part IV: Arab spring : the revolts, and the rise of the brotherhood.  "You sold out the revolution" ; Searching for the "right side of history" ; The riddle of the brotherhood ; What works once doesn't always work twice; title: Part V: China and North Korea : the rebalancing.  Restraining the tiger, containing the Kims; title: Epilogue.