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Title: The Birds Eye View
Review: Afghan/Soviet War books can be broken up into a finite set of subjects. Personal/First Person Journalist account, War tactics or High level political/war analysis.This book is squarely in the last category. A view of the war as described by the Pakistani ISI Brigadier General who ran it.Regardless of the fact that the book is one sided, I found the book invaluable as a reference on how the Pakistani's ran the war. From Supply chain, US politics, right to on-the-ground tactics; the General goes over everything. At some points admitting Government secrets (That had probably be unclassified by print time).An excellent book, well written, and interesting. The book even reviews at a tactical level, many battles you can read in "The Other Side of the Mountain".This book won't cover the entire war, but is a great high level view of the Pakistani operational framework.
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