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Email us at atwar nytimes. Arguably, it is the closest any book about the American war in Afghanistan has come to capturing what transpired in a slice of territory occupied by U. The soldiers there built and tore down outposts.
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Went on hundreds of patrols. Fought and died.
Morgan, a military affairs reporter, documents it all from the beginning to the end, a herculean task in a conflict that has gone on for so long, and with characters who continuously rotated in and out every few months. These men and women all left their own marks on a military strategy that was z understood or clearly defined.
Morgan spoke with The Times about the book and what he thinks comes next in the Pech after the United States leaves Afghanistan. I first went to the Pech in — when I was a freelancer and I was still in college — for an embed with a battalion from the st Airborne Division. That visit just got me obsessed.
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Initially it was for a senior thesis project that I turned in a decade ago — I helped break the news of the imminent U. Chivers and Alissa Rubin because I stumbled onto the information while doing that thesis research.
And then later it was for this book, as I kept going back to Afghanistan and U. The first thing that struck me was how many of the reviews were being written by military veterans. Then what blew me away was a pair of reviews, both by Afghanistan infantry veterans, in two publications that both cover war but with drastically different audiencesand the reviews had quite a bit in common.]
Also what in that case to do?
The theme is interesting, I will take part in discussion. Together we can come to a right answer.