It has fomented resentments among allies, fueled instability, and created new weapons unbound by the normal rules of accountability during wartime. But the knife has created enemies just as it has killed them. This new approach to war has been embraced by Washington as a lower risk, lower cost alternative to the messy wars of occupation and has been championed as a clean and surgical way of conflict. 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. 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. The most momentous change in American warfare over two decades has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can’t go.
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world’s dark spaces: the new American way of war.
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