Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America's Elite Special Forces, Kevin Maurer

The Green Berets - a legendary corps of soldiers whose exploits made military history. But now, its very identity and role as a fighting force may be forever changed... Until the war in Iraq, 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 since that time, Special Forces units have forgone their previous mission, instead focusing on offensive raids....

...Award-winning journalist Kevin Maurer traveled with a Special Forces team in Afghanistan, finding out first-hand the inside story of the lives of this elite group of highly trained soldiers....

...Maurer delivers a compelling account of modern warfare and of a fighting force that is doing eveything in its power to achieve victory on a complex twenty-first-century battlefield.

Author: Kevin Maurer

Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group (2012)

ISBN: 9780425253597

Description: VERY GOOD+

Condition: 242 pages, Hardback, 234 X 157 mm

Shipping weight: 610 gr.

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