Title: Informative, intense and thought provoking
Review: This book was recommended to me by a friend. I took the paperback on a flight for the periods where I can't turn on my Kindle. I never turned my Kindle on, because I could not put this down.The author joined the Marines after graduating from Dartmouth, having no idea how the world would change after 911. His honest portrayals of officer training, and his accounts of combat, leave little to the imagination. He tells you the good and the bad. The men and women he describes are living, breathing human beings, not cardboard cutouts or characters in a recruiting commercial.The chaotic nature of modern warfare is well illustrated. How does a soldier know when to pull the trigger when the he can't distinguish between enemy and non-combatants? As the author describes it, the choices are often between bad and worse.Highly recommended.
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