Marathon War: Leadership in Combat in Afghanistan [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B08TX55T9T | 2021 | 12 hours and 56 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 356 MB
Author: Jeffrey Schloesser
Narrator: L.J. Ganser
From Major General Jeffrey Schloesser - former commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-East - comes a revealing memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War. Join Major General Schloesser in the daily grind of warfare fought in the most forbidding of terrain, with sometimes uncertain or untested allies, Afghan corruption and Pakistani bet hedging, and the mounting casualties of war that erode and bring into question Schloesser’s most profoundly held convictions and beliefs.
Among several battles, Schloesser takes listeners deep into the Battle of Wanat, where nine US soldiers were killed in a fierce, up-close fight to prevent a new operating base from being overrun. This encounter required Schloesser to make tactical decisions that had dramatic strategic impact and led him to doubts: Can this war even be won? If so, what will it take?