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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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.