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A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
November 2014
On Sale: November 11, 2014
544 pages ISBN: 0544370481 EAN: 9780544370487 Kindle: B00KEWAP04 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
A high-ranking general’s gripping insider account of the
U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong. Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through
the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding
in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and
Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top-level
military and civilian players, where strategy was made and
managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle
alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual
for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of military command, Bolger
offers a unique assessment of these wars, from 9/11 to the
final withdrawal from the region. Writing with hard-won
experience and unflinching honesty, Bolger makes the firm
case that in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we lost — but we
didn’t have to. Intelligence was garbled. Key decision
makers were blinded by spreadsheets or theories. And, at the
root of our failure, we never really understood our enemy. Why We Lost is a timely, forceful, and compulsively readable
account of these wars from a fresh and authoritative
perspective.
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