Title: Boots on the ground
Description: Boots on the Ground is a narrative account of the American war to free Afghanistan from al Qaeda and the Taliban. Author Dick Camp uses extensive firsthand accounts that bring the text alive. Camp's exciting narrative covers the origins of American combat involvement in the country as well as the post-9/11 campaigns that initially brought victory over al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. In an incisive epilogue, he describes how we let victory in Afghanistan slip away to fight a war in Iraq.
Subjects: Campaigns, United States. Army. Special Forces, Commando operations, United States, Afghan War, 2001-, History, United states, army, special forces, Afghan War, 2001-2021
Places: United States
Time periods: 21st century