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© The Outpost I first met Adrian Bonenberger in 2014, after he completed two tours in Afghanistan. He d published
Afghan Post, a painful epistolary memoir about his experiences. Bonenberger started that book a breezy, confident, idealistic young officer, but as he came across more cruelty, waste, and corruption, started to break down, second-guessing not only the mission but himself, i.e. why he d volunteered.
At the outset of
The Odyssey and
The Iliad he read as a kid, to
All Quiet on the Western Front. But after years of head-scratching missions, circuitous contracting schemes, and lies sent down from above (and demanded in return),
Taibbi: An Afghanistan Veteran Looks Back On The First Postmodern War
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