奥巴马执政后,为打击“基地”组织,决定继续在阿富汗和巴基斯坦地区进行军事行动。本文作者依据官方文件、内部备忘录、会议纪要以及数百个小时的面对面访谈等第一手资料,忠实记录了白宫、美国国务院、五角大楼、中情局等美国决策层各部门在制定军事战略过程中明争暗斗、相互博弈的复杂过程。作者系美国资深时政记者,曾因报道“水门事件”和“9·11”恐怖袭击事件而两次获普利策奖。 After Obama came to power, he decided to continue his military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan in order to crack down on Al Qaeda. Based on first-hand information such as official documents, internal memos, minutes of conferences and face-to-face interviews of hundreds of hours, the authors faithfully recorded the secret struggle between the White House, the U.S. Department of State, the Pentagon, the CIA and other U.S. decision-making departments in formulating military strategies. The complex process of mutual game. The author is a veteran US political journalist who twice won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting the “Watergate” and “September 11” terrorist attacks.