“It Just Wasn’t That Type Of War”

Elliot Ackerman, who served as an adviser to Afghan special ops forces from 2008 to 2011, revisits the rationale behind the long-drawn-out American entanglement in the Graveyard of Empires. In his Afghanistan days, he writes, “words like ‘win’ and ‘end’ weren’t part of our vocabulary. These days, such words seem even less well suited to […]

An interesting read via The Dish