Good Men, Bad Strategy

There are great men in America.

As I read Bing West’s third — and best — book about the Afghan War, I met some of those men. Bing West is many things: a Marine “grunt,” a scholar, a historian, and a former leader in the highest levels of our government. But he’s also a writer, and a very good one. In One Million Steps, West uses that talent to tell the story of one Marine platoon, and — through that platoon — the story of the Afghan War in its entirety.