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The author of "The way of the Knife" CIA and secret operations

Published: May 25, 2017, 6:18 p.m.

b'A Pulitzer Prize\\u2013winning reporter\\u2019s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America\\u2019s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world\\u2019s dark spaces: the new American way of war

The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can\\u2019t go. The Way of the Knife is the untold story of that shadow war: a campaign that has blurred the lines between soldiers and spies and lowered the bar for waging war across the globe. America has pursued its enemies with killer drones and special operations troops; trained privateers for assassination missions and used them to set up clandestine spying networks; and relied on mercurial dictators, untrustworthy foreign intelligence services, and proxy armies.
Mark Mazzetti is a national security correspondent for the New York Times. He has received numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, and he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. He lives in Washington, D.C'