Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine, is the author of a dozen books about Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. His latest is The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War.
Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine, is a military historian. He has written ten books about our wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the latest of which is The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War.
Control of the Black Sea would give Russia leverage in negotiations with Ukraine. The U.S., under a U.N. resolution, should reestablish freedom of the seas.
To judge from Stanley McChrystal’s new book, he remains blind to his error of a strategy that his soldiers in Afghanistan could not comprehend or execute.