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The operators : the wild and terrifying inside story of America's war in Afghanistan / Michael Hastings.

by Hastings, Michael, 1980-2013.

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New York : Blue Rider Press, c2012.

McChrystal, Stanley A. -- Military leadership.

Hastings, Michael, 1980-2013.

United States. Army -- Officers -- Conduct of life.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Political aspects -- United States.

Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.

United States -- Military policy.

9780399159886 :

417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

pt. I THE PLAN -- 1.Delta Bravo -- 2.It's Not Switzerland -- 3.Lady Gaga -- 4."Intimidated by the Crowd" -- 5.Arc de Triomphe -- 6."A Violent Act" -- 7.On the X -- 8.The A-Team -- 9."Bite Me" -- 10.The Photo Op -- 11.Totally Shit-Faced -- 12."Dead Silence" -- 13.The Horror, the Horror -- 14.We're Actually Losing -- 15.Petraeus Can't Do Afghanistan, and We Aren't Going to Get Bin Laden -- 16.The Elections, Part I -- 17.Texts to Berlin -- 18.The Elections, Part II -- 19.Team America Rolls the Ritz -- 20.On Principle -- 21.Spies Like Us -- 22."I'm President. I Don't Give a Shit What They Say" -- 23.The Strategy -- 24."Let Me Be Clear" -- 25.Worshipping the Gods of Beer -- 26.Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part I, 1954--1976 -- 27."The Jerk in Green" -- 28.Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part II, 1976--Present Day -- 29.Reality Checks In -- pt. II INTERLUDE: DUBAI -- pt. III AFGHANISTAN -- 30.A Short History of a Horrible Idea -- 31.Bad Romance --

32.President Karzai Has a Cold -- 33.An E-mail Exchange: Come Walk in Our Boots -- 34.A Boy Born in 1987 -- 35.Where Is Israel Arroyo? -- 36.Ingram's House -- 37.An Army of None -- 38.In the Arena -- 39."I Didn't Even Know We Were Fighting There" -- 40.The Concluding Converations with Duncan Boothby, General Petraeus Face-Plants in Congress, and the Story Breaks While I Watch American Helicopter Pilots Kill Insurgents -- pt. IV THE GRACEFUL EXIT -- 41."Very, Very Bad" -- 42.The Pentagon Investigates McChrystal -- 43.The Media-Military-Industrial Complex -- 44.I'd Rather Be Eating a Burger -- 45.Once Upon a Time in Kandahar -- 46.King David's War -- 47."Tourism, Not Terrorism" -- 48.Petraeus Does Body Counts -- 49.The New Afghanistan -- 50.Joe Biden Is Right.

The contributing editor of "Rolling Stone" whose uncensored article "The Runaway General" led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal provides a behind-the-scenes account of the United States' involvement in Afghanistan.

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