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Lawrence of Arabia matches Sebastian Junger's Conflict in this unique, incendiary, and remarkable true history of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan compiled by a Pulitzer Prize-nominated battle correspondent. Some have called him "Lawrence of Afghanistan". For the Pashtun tribesmen he is "Commander Jim", innovator of the "bearded ones". He is Army Special Makes Major Jim Gant, one of the most charismatic and questionable U.S. commanders of modern recollection, a guy who changed the facial skin of America's battle in Afghanistan when his critical white newspaper, "One Tribe at a Time", travelled viral at the Pentagon, the White House, and on Capitol Hill in 2009 2009. A decorated Green Beret who experienced put in years training indigenous fighters, Jim argued for embedding autonomous systems with tribes across Afghanistan: These American soldiers would live among Afghans for expanded periods, not and then train and equip tribal militias, but to combat - and even perish - alongside them in battle. He argued that we could earn the trust of the Afghans and transform them into a trusted ally with whom we're able to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda sites. The military's top brass, including Basic David Petraeus, then commander of U.S. Central Demand and overseeing the battle in Afghanistan, and Admiral Eric Olson, mind of Special Procedures Command, approved the program and offered Jim the go-ahead to embark on the quest. p>A war history like no other, an unprecedented consideration of an warrior who used the cause of villagers as though it were his own, and of a female on the front lines of an distant war, American Spartan can be an unforgettable story - and one of the most remarkable and emotionally resonant narratives of battle ever published.
