273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan
The Realignment
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What Does It Mean to Leave No One Behind?
The book follows five va ation cases that i was involved in over a the summer of 20 21. The idea of what does it mean to leave nobody behind, sort of running through all this is this theme of yuno, we don't leave our people behind. It's not excluse to he us Military an it is a code as old as war. A friend of mine who has a very successful sub a substact kind of came to me in heat of this wasli and asked for 500 words about afghanistan. And she sawel, this whole thing is just a tragedy. People want to understand it.
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