Craig Whitlock - Afganisztán-iratok

"The Afghanistan files are an autopsy report of America's stupid intervention in Central Asia. An indictment against American arrogance, and a warning to future leaders."
Kevin Maurer, co-author of Operation Bin Laden

In contrast to the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the American attacks against Afghanistan in 2001 were almost unanimously supported by the public. The goals were clear at first: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of the September 11 terrorist attacks. But shortly after the United States and its allies ousted the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course.
The American military engaged in guerrilla warfare in a country where it could not find its way around. Neither Bush, nor Obama, nor Trump admitted that the war was a failure, and even sent more and more troops to Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Papers are based on interviews with more than a thousand people - White House officials, Pentagon leaders, soldiers operating on the front lines - who knew that the government presented to the public a distorted, sometimes completely fabricated, version of events instead of the truth. Craig Whitlock's book is an astonishing fact-finding work, shedding new light on everything we knew and thought about the war in Afghanistan.

Craig Whitlock (1968) is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. Since 2001, he has been writing for the newspaper about the global war against terrorism as a foreign correspondent, a journalist accredited to the Pentagon and a national security expert. He reported from more than sixty countries and was nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize. The Afghanistan Papers, which hit the top of The New York Times bestseller list immediately after its publication, is his first book.