The Wrong War
Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out of Afghanistan. Drawing on his expertise as both a combat-hardened Marine and a former assistant secretary of defense, West has written a tour de force narrative, rich with vivid characters and gritty combat, which shows the consequences when strategic theory meets tactical reality. Having embedded with dozens of frontline units over the past three years, he takes the reader on a battlefield journey from the mountains in the north to the opium fields in the south. A fighter who understands st…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8129-8090-5
- EAN: 9780812980905
- Produktnummer: 11358639
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 386 g
- Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
- Gewicht: 386
Über den Autor
Bing West's bestselling books have won the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award, the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction, the Andrew J. Goodpaster Prize for military scholarship, the Colby Award for military nonfiction, and the Marine Corps University Foundation's Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award. West, a Marine combat infantryman, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former assistant secretary of defense.
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