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By Eric Blehm
On a moonless evening simply weeks after September eleven, 2001, U.S. designated Forces crew ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a probably very unlikely undertaking: to foment a tribal insurrection and strength the Taliban to give up. Armed exclusively with the apparatus they could keep it up their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla battle, Captain Jason Amerine and his males haven't any selection yet to belief their in simple terms best friend, a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who has back from exile and is being hunted via the Taliban as he travels the nation-state elevating a defense force. the one factor worthy loss of life For chronicles an important project within the early days of the worldwide struggle on Terror, whilst the lads at the flooring knew little concerning the enemy—and their commanders in Washington knew even much less. With extraordinary entry to surviving participants of ODA 574, key warfare planners, and Karzai himself, award-winning writer Eric Blehm cuts during the noise of politicians and high-level army officers to relate for the 1st time a narrative of unusual bravery and negative sacrifice, in detail exposing the realities of unconventional war and nation-building in Afghanistan that proceed to form the quarter this present day.
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Military Academy, in West Point, New York. Carol was reluctant to embrace her only son’s military aspirations, having seen too many of her friends die young in Vietnam, but she ultimately supported his decision. “You’ve always been an idealist,” she told him at his high school graduation, “and following your ideals is the only thing worth dying for. ” Now thirty, Amerine had worked on five continents and led two Special Forces teams, ODA 572 for a year and a half before moving to ODA 574, 3rd Battalion’s military free-fall team, whose specialty was high-altitude, low-opening (HALO) parachute insertions behind enemy lines—the most dangerous way to infiltrate a hostile area.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations about the terrorist organizations flourishing in Afghanistan. S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—firing cruise missiles at terrorist training camps—was not enough. “Bombings or the threat of bombings,” he said, “will not remove terrorist bases from Afghanistan. Such actions will only add to the problems and prolong the suffering of our people and, worst of all, solidify the presence of terrorist groups. I call upon the international community, and particularly upon the government of the United States….
Finally, Karzai called out to the Americans: “Hello, hello! It’s okay. It’s fine. Come to me. ” Standing up, Amerine ran to Karzai, leaving the rest of the men lying prone beside their rucksacks, weapons still trained on the Afghans. ” he asked. “Yes, yes,” said Karzai, “these are good men. ” Amerine radioed JD: “Get the men moving. ” After the men from the ODA and CIA had dropped their rucks next to the donkeys, JD set them all in a tight perimeter, with every man lying prone and facing outward to form a circle half the size of a basketball court, with Amerine and Casper alongside Karzai at its center.