Your purchase helps support NPR programming. The Twilight War adds vital new depth to our understanding of this acute dilemma it is also a thrillingly engrossing read, animated by a healthy irony about human failings in the fog of not-quite war.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Twilight War Subtitle The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran Author David Crist "The Iran problem" is a razor-sharp briar patch that has claimed its sixth presidential victim in Barack Obama and his administration. Much has changed in the world since 1979, but Iran and America remain each other's biggest national security nightmares.
And he reveals in vivid detail for the first time a number of important stories of military and intelligence operations by both sides, both successes and failures, and their typically unexpected consequences. He documents the clandestine counterattack Iran launched after America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, in which thousands of soldiers disguised as reporters, tourists, pilgrims, and aid workers toiled to change the government in Baghdad and undercut American attempts to pacify the Iraqi insurgency. Crist describes the series of secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11, culminating in Iran's proposal for a grand bargain for peace-which the Bush administration turned down. administrations, Crist has spent more than ten years researching and writing The Twilight War, and he breaks new ground on virtually every page. A senior historian for the federal government with unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several U.S. It is a story of shocking miscalculations, bitter debates, hidden casualties, boldness, and betrayal. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations into open warfare. Battles are fought at sea with Iranians in small speedboats attacking Western oil tankers. Fights rage in the shadows, between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran's intelligence agency. This surreptitious war began with the Iranian revolution and simmers today inside Iraq and in the Persian Gulf.
It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never been told. The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war.
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