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The State Departments heroes are the front-line diplomats who have been unheralded, but crucial in the line of national defense for two decades of wars in the Middle East. InThe Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who do the hardest things in the hardest places.
Well see Ryan Crockers effort to organize a new Afghan government after the fall of the Taliban, even threatening the life of a Pashtun warlord, a US ally, to ensure that a column of tanks could join US forces in the biggest battle of the Afghan war. Robert Ford, the sole American official for the province of Najaf in central Iraq, tries to restart the economy and deal with growing militia violenceand was is taken hostage by a Shia militia. In Syria, he is chased by government thugs for defying the countrys ruler. J. Christopher Stevens is smuggled into Libya as U.S. Envoy to the rebels during its bloody civil war, then returns as ambassador only to be killed during a terror attack in Benghazi. War-zone veteran Anne Patterson is sent to Pakistan, considered the worlds most dangerous country, to broker deals that prevent a government collapse and to help guide the secret war on jihadists.
Richters account of the role of Americas diplomats in the wars in the Middle East and the Muslim world supplies a crucial anduntil nowmissing part of how these wars are being fought. An important addition to appreciating the roles of these diplomats, and an in-depth look into the complexity and length of these wars and nation-building,The Ambassadorsis a critical piece of modern day history.
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Copyright 2019 by Paul Richter
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Photographs courtesy of U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. embassy in Iraq, and Brian Linvill
Jacket design by Jonathan Bush
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-1-5011-7241-0
ISBN 978-1-5011-7242-7 (ebook)
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Chris Stevens walking with an elderly Libyan hes just befriended on a visit to Ras al-Hilal in eastern coastal Libya.
Anne Patterson delivering American military precooked meals for humanitarian relief to a Pakistani general.
Ryan Crocker meets with U.S. three-star General Ray Odierno and an Iraqi general in the first days of his posting as U.S. ambassador to Iraq in 2007.
Robert Ford shares a meal with Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq.
Ryan C. Crocker, ambassador to Afghanistan, 201112; ambassador to Iraq, 20079; ambassador to Pakistan, 20047; deputy assistant secretary of state, 20013; charg daffaires, U.S. embassy in Afghanistan, 2002; ambassador to Syria, 19992001; ambassador to Kuwait, 199497; ambassador to Lebanon, 199093.
Robert S. Ford, ambassador to Syria, 201014; deputy chief of mission, U.S. embassy in Iraq, 20089; ambassador to Algeria, 20068; political counselor, U.S. embassy in Iraq, 20046; deputy chief of mission, U.S. embassy in Bahrain, 20014.
Anne W. Patterson, assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, 201317; ambassador to Egypt, 201113; ambassador to Pakistan, 200710; assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs, 20057; acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 2005; ambassador to Colombia, 20002003; ambassador to El Salvador, 19972000.
J. Christopher Stevens, ambassador to Libya, 2012; U.S. special representative to the Libyan rebel coalition, 2011; deputy chief of mission, U.S. embassy in Libya, 20079; deputy principal officer and chief of political section, U.S. consulate, Jerusalem, 20026; killed in terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, September 11, 2012.
At the State Department
Richard L. Armitage, deputy secretary of state, 20015.
Richard A. Boucher, assistant secretary for South and Central Asian affairs, 20069; assistant secretary of state for public affairs, 20002005.
William J. Burns, deputy secretary of state 201114; undersecretary of state for political affairs, 200811; assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, 20015.
Hillary R. Clinton, secretary of state, 200913.
Jeffrey D. Feltman, assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, 200912.
Marc I. Grossman, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 201112; undersecretary of state for political affairs, 20015; director general of the U.S. Foreign Service, 20002001.
Richard C. A. Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 200910.
A. Elizabeth Jones, acting assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, 201213.
John F. Kerry, secretary of state, 201317.
Colin L. Powell, secretary of state, 20015.
Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, 20059.
Wendy R. Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, 201115.
At the White House
Joseph R. Biden, vice president, 200917.
George W. Bush, president, 20019.
Richard B. Cheney, vice president, 20019.
James F. Dobbins, Bush administration senior representative on Afghanistan, 20012.
Zalmay Khalilzad, ambassador to Iraq, 20057; ambassador to Afghanistan, 20035; special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, 20013; ambassador-at-large for the Free Iraqis, 20023.
Prem G. Kumar, senior director for Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council staff, 201315; director for Israeli, Palestinian, and Egyptian Affairs, 200913; political officer, U.S. consulate, Jerusalem, 20024.
Denis R. McDonough, chief of staff to President Obama, 201317; deputy national security adviser, 201013.
Barack H. Obama, president, 200917.
Benjamin J. Rhodes, deputy national security adviser, 200917; top communications aide to President Obama.
At the Defense Department
General Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 201115.
Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, 20015.
Robert M. Gates, secretary of defense, 200611.
Leon E. Panetta, secretary of defense, 201113.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, 20016.
Paul D. Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, 20015.
In Afghanistan
Abdul Rashid Dostum, ethnic Uzbek warlord from the countrys north who served as deputy defense minister in 2003; vice president since 2014.
Karl W. Eikenberry, a career U.S. Army officer; ambassador to Afghanistan, 200911; commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, 20057.
Muhammad Qasim Fahim, ethnic Tajik warlord who led the U.S.-allied Northern Alliance forces that drove the Taliban out of Kabul in 2001. Vice chairman, Afghan interim government, 20012; vice president, 2009 until his death in 2014.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, brutal leader of the Hezb-i-Islami Islamist militia; two-time Afghan prime minister during the 1990s. During the civil war of 199296, forces under his command destroyed much of Kabul.
Hamid Karzai, chairman of the interim government, 20012; interim president, 20024; president, 200414.
Ismail Khan, ethnic Tajik warlord from western Afghanistan; minister of water and energy, 200413; governor, Herat Province, 20014.
Atta Muhammad Noor, ethnic Tajik warlord from northern Afghanistan; commander in the U.S.-allied Northern Alliance militia coalition during the 2001 campaign to oust the Taliban; governor, Balkh Province, 200418.
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