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The operators : the wild and terrifying inside story of America's war in Afghanistan / Michael Hastings.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Blue Rider Press, c2012.Description: 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0399159886 (trade)
  • 9780399159886 (trade)
Other title:
  • Wild and terrifying inside story of America's war in Afghanistan
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Contents:
32.President Karzai Has a Cold -- 33.An E-mail Exchange: Come Walk in Our Boots -- 34.A Boy Born in 1987 -- 35.Where Is Israel Arroyo? -- 36.Ingram's House -- 37.An Army of None -- 38.In the Arena -- 39."I Didn't Even Know We Were Fighting There" -- 40.The Concluding Converations with Duncan Boothby, General Petraeus Face-Plants in Congress, and the Story Breaks While I Watch American Helicopter Pilots Kill Insurgents -- pt. IV THE GRACEFUL EXIT -- 41."Very, Very Bad" -- 42.The Pentagon Investigates McChrystal -- 43.The Media-Military-Industrial Complex -- 44.I'd Rather Be Eating a Burger -- 45.Once Upon a Time in Kandahar -- 46.King David's War -- 47."Tourism, Not Terrorism" -- 48.Petraeus Does Body Counts -- 49.The New Afghanistan -- 50.Joe Biden Is Right.
pt. I THE PLAN -- 1.Delta Bravo -- 2.It's Not Switzerland -- 3.Lady Gaga -- 4."Intimidated by the Crowd" -- 5.Arc de Triomphe -- 6."A Violent Act" -- 7.On the X -- 8.The A-Team -- 9."Bite Me" -- 10.The Photo Op -- 11.Totally Shit-Faced -- 12."Dead Silence" -- 13.The Horror, the Horror -- 14.We're Actually Losing -- 15.Petraeus Can't Do Afghanistan, and We Aren't Going to Get Bin Laden -- 16.The Elections, Part I -- 17.Texts to Berlin -- 18.The Elections, Part II -- 19.Team America Rolls the Ritz -- 20.On Principle -- 21.Spies Like Us -- 22."I'm President. I Don't Give a Shit What They Say" -- 23.The Strategy -- 24."Let Me Be Clear" -- 25.Worshipping the Gods of Beer -- 26.Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part I, 1954--1976 -- 27."The Jerk in Green" -- 28.Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part II, 1976--Present Day -- 29.Reality Checks In -- pt. II INTERLUDE: DUBAI -- pt. III AFGHANISTAN -- 30.A Short History of a Horrible Idea -- 31.Bad Romance --
Summary: The contributing editor of "Rolling Stone" whose uncensored article "The Runaway General" led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal provides a behind-the-scenes account of the United States' involvement in Afghanistan.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative, forward-thinking commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. He was better known to some as Big Stan, M4, Stan, and his loyal staff liked to call him a "rock star." During a spring 2010 trip across Europe to garner additional allied help for the war effort, McChrystal was accompanied by journalist Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone . For days, Hastings looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam, partying and openly bashing the Obama administration for what they saw as a lack of leadership. When Hastings's piece appeared a few months later, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was ordered to Washington, where he was fired unceremoniously.

In The Operators , Hastings picks up where his Rolling Stone coup ended. He gives us a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stakes maneuvers and often bitter bureaucratic infighting. Hastings takes us on patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands, to late-night bull sessions of senior military advisors, to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building gone awry. And as he weighs the merits and failings of old-school generals and the so-called COINdinistas-the counterintelligence experts-Hastings draws back the curtain on a hellish complexity and, he fears, an unwinnable war.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-417).

32.President Karzai Has a Cold -- 33.An E-mail Exchange: Come Walk in Our Boots -- 34.A Boy Born in 1987 -- 35.Where Is Israel Arroyo? -- 36.Ingram's House -- 37.An Army of None -- 38.In the Arena -- 39."I Didn't Even Know We Were Fighting There" -- 40.The Concluding Converations with Duncan Boothby, General Petraeus Face-Plants in Congress, and the Story Breaks While I Watch American Helicopter Pilots Kill Insurgents -- pt. IV THE GRACEFUL EXIT -- 41."Very, Very Bad" -- 42.The Pentagon Investigates McChrystal -- 43.The Media-Military-Industrial Complex -- 44.I'd Rather Be Eating a Burger -- 45.Once Upon a Time in Kandahar -- 46.King David's War -- 47."Tourism, Not Terrorism" -- 48.Petraeus Does Body Counts -- 49.The New Afghanistan -- 50.Joe Biden Is Right.

pt. I THE PLAN -- 1.Delta Bravo -- 2.It's Not Switzerland -- 3.Lady Gaga -- 4."Intimidated by the Crowd" -- 5.Arc de Triomphe -- 6."A Violent Act" -- 7.On the X -- 8.The A-Team -- 9."Bite Me" -- 10.The Photo Op -- 11.Totally Shit-Faced -- 12."Dead Silence" -- 13.The Horror, the Horror -- 14.We're Actually Losing -- 15.Petraeus Can't Do Afghanistan, and We Aren't Going to Get Bin Laden -- 16.The Elections, Part I -- 17.Texts to Berlin -- 18.The Elections, Part II -- 19.Team America Rolls the Ritz -- 20.On Principle -- 21.Spies Like Us -- 22."I'm President. I Don't Give a Shit What They Say" -- 23.The Strategy -- 24."Let Me Be Clear" -- 25.Worshipping the Gods of Beer -- 26.Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part I, 1954--1976 -- 27."The Jerk in Green" -- 28.Who Is Stanley McChrystal? Part II, 1976--Present Day -- 29.Reality Checks In -- pt. II INTERLUDE: DUBAI -- pt. III AFGHANISTAN -- 30.A Short History of a Horrible Idea -- 31.Bad Romance --

The contributing editor of "Rolling Stone" whose uncensored article "The Runaway General" led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal provides a behind-the-scenes account of the United States' involvement in Afghanistan.

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