Read Or Download Eagle Down: American Special Forces at the End of Afghanistan's War By Jessica Donati Full Pages.

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of U.S. Special Forces who were on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State?at the end of the war in Afghanistan.?Powerful, important, and searing." ?General David Petraeus,?U.S. Army (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command, former CIA director?In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly "the longest war in American history is over." But for some, it was just the beginning of a new and covert war, fought far from public view, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders.?Take Hutch, a battle-worn Green Beret on his fifth combat tour in 2015, tasked with a high-stakes mission: lead a small band of men into Kunduz, recapture the city from the Taliban, and turn it over to the Afghan government. The U.S. role was meant to be a secret-after all, the war was over. Then, disaster struck. He called in an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital,
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