Lost in Kandahar Alex Berenson 9781536620221 Books
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When novelist and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson traveled to Afghanistan for an embed with the 101st Airborne Division, he found great soldiers – and a seemingly hopeless mission. This is the gripping non-fiction tale of how the United States is spending $100 billion a year on a war that even the men on the front lines can't explain.
Lost in Kandahar Alex Berenson 9781536620221 Books
This report, which it really was in essence, described the stark difference between our way of life and the lives of the Afghans. While it seems critical to us that we fight the battles we fight to prevent the Taliban killing from continuing, where women are treated horribly as we've come to know, and expanding again beyond the borders. The writer effectively portrays life as a soldier with its commitment to fellow soldier but also to the larger American and Allies effort to combat evil in an ongoing answer to an unfortunate modern need, namely, to do their best to limit the damage the Al Qaeda enemy does to its own people and to limit the potential for outreach to the peace-craving rest of the world. I felt that when the story as report ended I had been given a powerful sample of what it's like to be there on our behalf, and that the writer used a minimum number of words to describe maximum reality.Product details
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Lost in Kandahar Alex Berenson 9781536620221 Books Reviews
I wanted more than a short story. I would liked to have gotten to know the soldiers better. more story here than was written.
As someone who has deployed to Afghanistan, parts of this short book really got the memories flowing. Whether or not you agree with how the author portrays the war, he truly captures the mood of a deployment to Kandahar province. He also does it by focusing on the average Soldiers, not like some obscure and overly strategic General's telling of it might be.
Even the details of moving around the country were captured perfectly. Most readers might think nothing of the inclusion of the bit about Kandahar Airfield (KAF) and its TGI Friday's, and expect the story to begin at the combat outpost. However by including it, he mirrors what the Soldiers go through. He covers it just enough to see the absurdities and make it stick in your head, and gets you wondering what to expect. The Soldiers go through the same thing- they deploy to KAF, get stuck there seeing the excess and the cushy life, then move on to a base in the middle of nowhere.
In the end, the book was very short, but presented the setting and Soldiers' attitudes extremely well.
I think that in this Single, Lost in Kandahar by Alex Berenson, I gleaned enough from it to make it worth reading. As the soldiers point out, there was not that much action when Berenson was embedded with troops in Afghanistan, and that if he had been there a couple of months earlier, he might have seen more. Before I read this, I had no idea what the Kandahar Air Field is like and how many people occupy it. The little part on military organization was helpful to me since it's information I've heard before, but didn't remember.
Berenson's comments that he came away with about the Afghan soldiers was quite interesting in light of what we hear on the news. I tend to believe the ones who are there rather than what I read or hear in news reports. Those who reviewed this Single who have been deployed to the area seem to feel that it's a fairly accurate picture. I'll take their word for it.
The IED incident was very informative and enforced how very dangerous it is to travel through this country on foot or in vehicles for our military and all military personnel who serve there. Unless we've been there and have served first-hand, we have no idea what it's like.
I agree with the decision made in the case of the young girl who came to the base for help in facing an arranged marriage at such a young age. I think the military's decision not to get involved in a family's dispute and cultural matter was the right thing to do, because we are not there for that purpose. It shouldn't be our job to impose our morals and our cultural values on a country that we are occupying. As we are told in the tale of this girl, they never even found out her name. They did the best they could, but not every family problem can be solved by the U.S. military in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
Although not the quality of the excellent book WAR by Sebastian Junger, or the details packed into TALIBAN by Ahmed Rashid, this Single gives just enough information to whet the appetite to read more about the war, our troops' time there and the ever fascinating country and people of Afghanistan.
I love Alex Berenson's novels, so I decided I would give this a try. I thought it was an interesting look at the average Joe's life in Afghanistan, however I do wish the book had been longer. I read the whole thing in about 15 minutes. It is more like an extended newspaper article, and being that Berenson was a journalist by trade, maybe that is what it was intended to be. Regardless, I would have liked a little more in-depth look at the men and the situations they were in; in spite of this, I would still recommend it.
A good descriptive essay on our work in Afghanistan, and perhaps the best reasons why we should not be there. In the
beginning I thought the move was correct. It appears that we have fallen into the same crevase that the Russians did there
only we do not know when to say ENOUGH. Their culture will continue if and when we leave and I belive that Alex has
clarified that as the case. Interesting reading that updates my past 22 years in the green uniform. History will prevail.
This was my unit during my 10-11 deployment to Afghanistan. I was the company medic and this was a very accurate of our day to day. We had many cultural issues was had to balance with our own personal ethics. Matt Fields constantly had something to say about everything it was hilarious. Just read with an open mind.
This report, which it really was in essence, described the stark difference between our way of life and the lives of the Afghans. While it seems critical to us that we fight the battles we fight to prevent the Taliban killing from continuing, where women are treated horribly as we've come to know, and expanding again beyond the borders. The writer effectively portrays life as a soldier with its commitment to fellow soldier but also to the larger American and Allies effort to combat evil in an ongoing answer to an unfortunate modern need, namely, to do their best to limit the damage the Al Qaeda enemy does to its own people and to limit the potential for outreach to the peace-craving rest of the world. I felt that when the story as report ended I had been given a powerful sample of what it's like to be there on our behalf, and that the writer used a minimum number of words to describe maximum reality.
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