Our Latest Longest War
By Will Selber
September 05, 2017
Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan. Aaron B. O’Connell (ed). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
As the three-year anniversary of the end of Operation Enduring Freedom approaches, autopsies on the thirteen-year endeavor have increased. With every passing month, it seems a new memoir or examination is published. Accordingly, it would be easy to dismiss Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan, a collection of essays edited by Aaron O’Connell, as the latest in a long line of lamentations on what went wrong.
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