Ropes of Sand
Open Road Media (Verlag)
978-1-5040-5007-4 (ISBN)
After the close of World War II, former army intelligence agent Wilbur Crane Eveland trained as a military attaché, specializing in the new focal point of global concern: the Middle East. In the decades that followed, he personally witnessed the evolution and many blunders of American Middle East policy from embassies of Arab states, inside the Pentagon and the White House, and as a principal CIA representative in the region. Finally, as a petroleum-engineering consultant, he lived with the results of America’s errors.
In Ropes of Sand, Eveland delivers a richly detailed assessment of the mistakes, miscalculations, and outright failures he observed. The governments the United States armed to defend the Middle East against Russia ended in collapse. American support of the Shah of Iran led to disastrous results. Many of the major crises the US faced, from the energy shortage to the border issues of Israel, had been forecast decades earlier. Eveland explains the country’s failure to understand these problems and shows why every proposed solution, from the United Nations Partition Resolution for Palestine to the Camp David Accords, only added fuel to the fire. His insider critique is essential for understanding the Arab Spring, the threat of ISIS, and the ongoing conflicts we face in the region today.
First released in 1980, this memoir was initially blocked from publication by the CIA for its revealing and critical discussion of numerous covert operations, some of which Eveland engaged in himself.
Wilbur Crane Eveland (1918–1990) was a World War II veteran, CIA station chief, and critic of US foreign policy in the Middle East. His memoir, Ropes of Sand (1980), details the many failures of the CIA vis-á-vis the Middle East during the Cold War.
Dedication
CONTENTS
SERIES INTRODUCTION
AUTHOR’S NOTE
PREFACE
1 The Genesis
2 Journey into History—1918–1948
3 Thirty Years of Indifference
4 Starting the Odyssey
5 The View from Washington
6 Ominous Precedents
7 In Defense of Oil, the Shah, and the Khyber Pass
8 Farewell to Arms
9 At the Highest Level
10 Spooky Corridors
11 Wait and See
12 Apple-Pie Diplomacy
13 Peace or Plots?
14 Game Plans
15 The Ticking Clock—1956
16 A Nibble on the Bait
17 Through the Glass Darkly
18 Suez and the Bluff
19 The Drop
20 Friends and Enemies
21 Uncertain Secrets
22 The Eisenhower Doctrine
23 Candidates and Coups
24 The Philby Connection
25 Gathering Storm
26 Showdown
27 Death of a Doctrine
28 On the Outside Looking In—1959–1974
29 Denouement in Lebanon—1975
30 Looking Back and to the Future
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Forbidden Bookshelf |
| Einführung | Mark Crispin Miller |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 133 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5040-5007-X / 150405007X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5040-5007-4 / 9781504050074 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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