The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Elliot Ackerman
“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George Packer
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy
Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. Afghan nationals who had worked closely with the American military and intelligence communities for years now faced brutal reprisal and sought frantically to flee the country with their families. The official US government evacuation effort was a bureaucratic failure that led to a...
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy
Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. Afghan nationals who had worked closely with the American military and intelligence communities for years now faced brutal reprisal and sought frantically to flee the country with their families. The official US government evacuation effort was a bureaucratic failure that led to a...
年:
2022
出版商:
Penguin Publishing Group
語言:
english
文件:
EPUB, 52.93 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2022
Amazon 
Barnes & Noble 
Bookshop.org 
轉換文件
更多的搜索結果
其他特權 
![Chandrasekaran, Rajiv — [Little America 01] • Little America](https://s3proxy.cdn-zlib.se/covers200/collections/userbooks/b997b379819c0a7c7790e821948be8cfcf34ba0965a03118146c7ed130a2cc37.jpg)
![Ted Rall [Rall, Ted] — After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan](https://s3proxy.cdn-zlib.se/covers200/collections/userbooks/ad79e8b12b9050fb14f1729d4155384f6b95d40b455e65be26d8778b4dfd5e56.jpg)
![Jessica Donati [Donati, Jessica] — Eagle Down](https://s3proxy.cdn-zlib.se/covers200/collections/userbooks/47b6f9e5bc680e2517794a2def2823d1449a0a9dc8fae5fca69d514d9d995b9e.jpg)
