Hopeless but optimistic : journeying through America's endless war in Afghanistan /

Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, a...

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Main Author: Wissing, Douglas A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • 1 Landing
  • 2 Problems
  • 3 In/Out
  • 4 Reify
  • 5 Shoulders
  • 6 Salerno
  • 7 Retrograde
  • 8 Better
  • 9 Boom
  • 10 WHAM
  • 11 Luck
  • 12 Shitholes
  • 13 Road
  • 14 Friends
  • 15 Kandahar
  • 16 Leatherneck
  • 17 Sex
  • 18 Drugs
  • 19 Brains
  • 20 Birds
  • 21 Geronimo
  • 22 Dream
  • 23 Ship
  • 24 Slaughter
  • 25 System
  • 26 Believers
  • 27 Rumi
  • 28 Enduring
  • 29 Beauty
  • 30 Sustaining
  • 31 Challenges
  • 32 Women
  • 33 Dutch
  • 34 Intermediates
  • 35 Embassy
  • 36 Loss
  • 37 Optimism
  • Epilogue
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Z
  • Photo gallery.