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Warrior Diplomat : A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afg
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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Potomac Books, Incorporated
- ISBN
- 9781612346311
- Book Title
- Warrior Diplomat : a Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Military / Special Forces, Military / Afghan War (2001-), Military / United States, International Relations / General, American Government / Executive Branch, Military
- Item Weight
- 27.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington DC and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have dealt with these issues in the White House situation room and on the front line. Michael G. Waltz has done just that, working as a policy advisor to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and also serving in the mountains of Afghanistan as a Green Beret, directly implementing strategy in the field that he helped devise in Washington. In Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan , Waltz shares his unique firsthand experiences, revealing the sights, sounds, emotions, and complexities involved in the war in Afghanistan. Waltz also highlights the policy issues that have plagued the war effort throughout the past decade, from the drug trade, to civilian casualties, to a lack of resources in comparison to Iraq, to the overall coalition strategy. At the same time, he points out that stabilizing Afghanistan and the region remains crucial to national security and that a long-term commitment along the lines of South Korea or Germany is imperative if America is to remain secure.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Potomac Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1612346316
ISBN-13
9781612346311
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201619363
Product Key Features
Book Title
Warrior Diplomat : a Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Military / Special Forces, Military / Afghan War (2001-), Military / United States, International Relations / General, American Government / Executive Branch, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Mike Waltz's important new book deftly charts 'what might have been' over the course of a long, largely indecisive war. NATO's largely unseen failures in Afghanistan are perhaps better charted here than in any other recent account--and it is a story that needs to be told as we think about future coalition operations. Mike stitches together the long thirteen-year arc of this story as few others could, from front line to the conference tables of policy makers in Washington and Europe. This is a book that needs to be read to understand what really happened over the last decade-plus in Afghanistan--and why." --Lieutenant General (Ret.) Dave Barno, former commander, Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan, "Michael Waltz distills the hard-earned wisdom of more than a decade of deep involvement in America's Afghan campaign. Unlike most other participants, however, Waltz served as a Special Forces officer on the ground and as a senior policy maker in Washington. One can only wish that more of our decision-makers possessed his breadth of vision and experience." --Nathaniel C. Fick, author of One Bullet Away, "Waltz, a lieutenant colonel in the Army reserves, commanded a Special Forces company in Afghanistan and held high counterterrorism positions at the Pentagon and White House. Combining what he saw on the ground with what he gleaned in Washington, Waltz offers his thoughts on the U.S. military and government's management of the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. . . . Waltz succeeds in his goal of explaining how the war in Afghanistan has been executed, making a case that the continuing chaos that nation endures is "directly connected" to the U.S. national interest." -- Publishers Weekly, "Using his singular set of experiences as a U.S. Army Special Forces operator and Washington policy insider, Mike Waltz captures the policy ambivalences, implementation challenges, and individual heroics that have made the U.S. effort in Afghanistan such a conundrum for presidents, generals, and the American people. But Waltz never loses sight of the human side of the equation and never gives in to defeatism or fatalism. His wise advice for the future should be heeded by U.S. leaders, now and in the future." --David Sedney, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia, " Warrior Diplomat is an important book that provides an unparalleled, firsthand account of America's role in Afghanistan. Michael Waltz brings us into the inner sanctums of the White House and the Pentagon, where the war was being planned and debated, and then leads us onto the battlefields of Afghanistan." --Seth G. Jones, author of In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan, "Few people in Washington must execute the policies they help craft. Warrior Diplomat is a must-read, firsthand examination of the Afghan war through the experiences of a practitioner at both ends of the spear." --Robert M. Gates, former U.S. secretary of defense, " Warrior Diplomat [is] a memoir of unique insight into the hope and tragedy of America's war in Afghanistan. . . . There is an almost surreal quality in the memoir of a man who briefed and wrote policy proposals for the powerful Vice-President one month, and in the next, shared meals with Afghan farmers or scrambled over walls in the dark of night to grab a Taliban commander, visiting relatives. . . . A must read book to understand how America's war in Afghanistan was fought so hard, for so long to so few measurable results."--Mark Safranski, Pragati, "Sometimes the right book comes along at just the right time--such is the case with Michael G. Waltz's new book, Warrior Diplomat released this week. The title describes Waltz well--he served as a Green Beret in Afghanistan and returned to Washington to work for the National Security Council at the White House." --Dana Perino, former spokeswoman for President George W. Bush and co-host of "The Five" on Fox News
Lccn
2014-944961
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
958.104/7
Lc Classification Number
Ua34.S64
Table of Content
List of Illustrations List of Maps Foreword by Peter Bergen Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Little Girl in Ghazni 1. State of the War: Office of the Secretary of Defense 2. Arabs, Afghans, and Americans: The War of Ideas 3. The Tagab Valley: Patrolling to Ambush 4. The Clinic in Achin: Development Dilemmas 5. The Road to Musa Qala: The Taliban Are Back 6. The French in Maruf: A Pawn in a Diplomatic Game 7. Operation Perth: War by Consensus 8. Back to Washington: The Pentagon and the White House 9. The Mangal Tribe: Protecting People We Can't Access 10. The Elder in Khost: Risk Aversion and the Cost of Inaction 11. Night Raid: The Catch-and-Release Detention System 12. Blackbeard Rising: The Afghan National Army Commandos 13. On the Border with Pakistan: The Rocket's Red Glare 14. The Tribes of Chamkani: The Community Defense Initiative 15. Washington Again: Wishing the Problem Away Notes Bibliography
Copyright Date
2014
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