Elliot Ackerman S New Book Looks At America S Withdrawal From In his new book "the fifth act: america's end in afghanistan", elliot ackerman, who served four combat tours in afghanistan with the marines and the cia, writes of how his mission continued, in. “the american betrayal of afghanistan took twenty years. elliot ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —george packer a powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the american collapse in afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy elliot ackerman left the american military ten years ago.
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Author And Former Marine Elliot Ackerman On The 20 Year American War In Npr's rachel martin talks to elliot ackerman about his new book, the fifth act: america's end in afghanistan. waves of afghans were trying to evacuate the country. rachel martin, host: it's almost. Elliot ackerman left the american military ten years ago, but his time in afghanistan and iraq with the marines and, later, as a cia paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. when the taliban began to close in on kabul in august of 2021 and the afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict.
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