Gentlemen Bastards by Kevin Maurer

Gentlemen Bastards by Kevin Maurer

Until the war in Iraq, the Special Forces were the military's counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transforming Northern Alliance fighters into cohesive units. But in the almost nine years since, Special Forces units have forgone their previous mission, instead focusing on offensive raids. With time running short, the Green Berets are going back to their roots and have started to focus on training Afghan security forces and building an Afghan government one village at a time. Award-winning journalist Kevin Maurer traveled with a Special Forces team in Afghanistan, finding out firsthand the inside story of the lives of this elite group of highly trained soldiers. He witnessed the intense brotherhood built upon the Special Forces' rigorous selection process and arduous training that makes them the smartest soldiers on the battlefield. He also discovered the boredom of chasing an elusive enemy and managing third world cops and the infighting that occurs between teammates and other units. Nine years after the start of the Afghan war, Maurer delivers a compelling account of modern warfare and of a fighting force that is doing everything in its power to achieve victory on a complex twenty-first-century battlefield.

Kevin Maurer is a bestselling coauthor of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Story of the Operation That Killed Osama bin Laden, which he coauthored with Mark Owen. For more than a decade, he has covered war and terrorism.

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ISBN 13	9780425253595
ISBN 10	0425253597
Title	Gentlemen Bastards
Author	Kevin Maurer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-06-04
Number of pages	272
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