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020			_a1409144879 (paperback) _c$28.75
020			_a9781409144878 (paperback)
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050	0	4	_aDS371.412
082	0	4	_a958.10474092 _bHAS 2012
100	1		_aHastings, Michael.
245	1	4	_aThe operators / _cMichael Hastings.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bOrion Publishing Group, _c2012.
300			_a432 p. ; _c24 cm.
520			_aGeneral Stanley McChrystal, the innovative commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was living large. 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' piece appeared a few months later, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was ordered to Washington, where he was unceremoniously fired. In The Operators, Hastings gives us a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of Allied military commanders, their high-stakes manoeuvres and often bitter bureaucratic in-fighting. He takes us on patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands and to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building gone awry, drawing back the curtain on a hellish complexity and, he fears, an unwinnable war.
650		0	_aAfghan War (2001-)
650		0	_aBuddhism and politics
650		0	_aHastings, Michael, 1980-2013
650		0	_aMilitary leadership
650		0	_aMilitary policy
650		0	_aUnited States
650		0	_aUnited States. Army
650		0	_aWar on Terrorism (2001-2009)
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409144879/chopaconline-20
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