Our Latest Longest War
Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

This was not a particularly easy read, both in terms of style, and in terms of reckoning with recent American history. Stylistically, it reads somewhat like an academic work and narrative nonfiction for a broader audience. I imagine a lot of people won't find the intellectual slog particularly satis......more

This book is written more like a collection of essays on a central theme than a "book". Doesn't distract from the overall read other than a few instances of redundancy in content as authors build context but should be kept in mind as the tone and perspective of the authors is very different in some......more

Our latest longest war is a book which discusses minute issues which led US to loose the Afghan war despite spending rather waisting trillion of tax payers money. In this book writer clear defines the complex cultural afghan terrain and US desire of modernisation afghanistan people through west prin......more

This was a bit of a slog for me. It's a strong critique of the Afghanistan War, but it's strength (being that its contributors are almost all military veterans of the Afghan war) eventually becomes its weakness. This is not Lawrence Wright, Joby Warrick, or Steve Coll. Much of this book, though full......more

If you want to know what happened in Afghanistan over the last few decades, this is a terrific start. It is a long read, but broken up into sections which were written by different authors, each speaking from a level of expertise, specific to their background and experience on the ground. I highly r......more