{"id":406901,"date":"2022-02-23T08:09:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineshop.net\/product\/the-wrong-war\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T11:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:21:32","slug":"the-wrong-war","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/product\/the-wrong-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mobile-about-the-book\">\n<div id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9780812980905 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\">\n<section class=\"overview\">In this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out of Afghanistan. Drawing on his expertise as both a combat-hardened Marine and a former assistant secretary of defense, West has written a tour de force narrative, rich with vivid characters and gritty combat, which shows the consequences when strategic theory meets tactical reality. Having embedded with dozens of frontline units over the past three years, he takes the reader on a battlefield journey from the mountains in the north to the opium fields in the south. A fighter who understands strategy, West builds the case for changing course. His conclusion is sure to provoke debate: remove most of the troops from Afghanistan, stop spending billions on the dream of a modern democracy, and insist the Afghans fight their own battles. Bing West\u2019s book is a page-turner about brave men and cunning enemies that examines our realistic choices as a nation.<\/section>\n<div id=\"left-rail-top\" class=\"product-body clearfix\">\n<div id=\"desktop-praise\" data-return-id=\"mobile-praise\">\n<div id=\"seemore-2\" class=\"slot product-praise seemoreenable opened\">\n<p>\u201cShould be read by anyone who wants to understand why the war [in Afghanistan] is so hard.\u201d\u2014Dexter Filkins,\u00a0<em>The New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the best books yet written on the war in Afghanistan . . . filled with both vivid descriptions of the Afghan fighting and sound advice concerning how counterinsurgencies should be waged.\u201d\u2014<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould be must reading for President Obama\u2014and for you. . . . Most of us really don\u2019t give Afghanistan much thought. . . . Most of us don\u2019t get it. If you read\u00a0<em>The Wrong War<\/em>\u00a0you will.\u201d\u2014<em>USA Today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always, West\u2019s greatest strengths are his exceptional personal courage and his experienced perception of combat. He anchors a narrative of failed policy in a set of battlefield stories that explains events with unusual clarity.\u201d<em>\u2014The Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest offers vivid accounts of the war from ground level and an unsparing analysis of the chances for U.S. success.\u201d<em>\u2014Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Bing West<\/b>\u00a0has written eleven books, including, with Jim Mattis, the #1\u00a0<i>New York Times\u00a0<\/i>bestseller\u00a0<i>Call Sign Chaos<\/i>. He served as a Marine grunt in Vietnam and later as an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. He has been on hundreds of patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan, including many operations with General Mattis. He is a member of the Military History Working Group at the Hoover Institution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":436443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[3719,3568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406901","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-afghanistan","7":"product_cat-strategy","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"bundle_layout":"","bundled_by":[],"bundled_items":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/406901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=406901"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=406901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}