02584cam a2200337 4500 545465144 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544438347 0544438345 B00KEWAP04 Amazon e1c74ec9-bc5a-44a8-bddc-429343a8e6a4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1750623 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bolger, Daniel P. Why We Lost [Libby] : A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 18MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Politics. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A commander's "compelling" behind-the-scenes view of the United States at war after 9/11, from high-level strategy to combat on the ground (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>).</b><br /> <br /> Over his thirty-five year career, Daniel P. Bolger rose through the ranks of the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Perhaps more than anyone else, he was witness to the full extent of these wars, from September 11th to withdrawal from the region. Not only did Bolger participate in top-level planning and strategy meetings, he also regularly carried a rifle alongside soldiers in combat actions.<br /> <br /> Writing with hard-won experience and unflinching honesty, Bolger argues that while we lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, we did not have to. Intelligence was garbled. Key decision makers were blinded by spreadsheets or theories. And we never really understood our enemy. <i>Why We Lost</i> is a timely, forceful, and compulsively readable account from a fresh and authoritative perspective, "filled with heartfelt stories of soldiers and Marines in firefights and close combat. It weighs in mightily to the ongoing debate over how the United States should wage war" (<i>The</i><i>Washington Post</i>).<br /></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/why-we-lost?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/why-we-lost?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/why-we-lost?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)