Author: Bing West, author of The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the US Marines and No True Glory: A Firsthand Account of the Battle for Fallujah
September/October 2011
Foreign Affairs
Two documentaries on the Afghan war, Restrepo and Armadillo, show how a combination of overwhelming military resources and aggressive counterinsurgency ultimately leads to frustration on the battlefield.
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