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Surge
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- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
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For the better part of the last half century, the United States has been the world's police, claiming to defend ideologies, allies, and our national security through brute force. But is military action always the most appropriate response? Drawing on his vast experience, retired four-star general Tony Zinni argues that we have a lot of work to do to make the process of going to war-or not-more clear-eyed and ultimately successful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for leaders
- De Ted en 06-17-22
De: Tony Koltz, y otros
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Known and Unknown
- A Memoir
- De: Donald Rumsfeld
- Narrado por: Donald Rumsfeld
- Duración: 30 h y 10 m
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A powerful memoir from the late former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history. Both a fascinating narrative and an unprecedented glimpse into history, Known and Unknown captures the legacy of one of the most influential men in public service.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inside view of five decades in politics
- De Brooks en 02-19-11
De: Donald Rumsfeld
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Duty
- Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- De: Robert M. Gates
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Robert M. Gates
- Duración: 25 h y 38 m
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he'd long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Fighting Season
- De Cynthia en 01-28-14
De: Robert M. Gates
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- De: Steve Coll
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 28 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,266
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,111
Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, best-selling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slow At Times But Always Horrifying And Engaging
- De Gillian en 02-20-18
De: Steve Coll
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In the Graveyard of Empires
- America’s War in Afghanistan
- De: Seth G. Jones
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
Following September 11, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime. It established security throughout the country, and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of conflict. But Jones argues that, as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq War siphoned off resources and talented personnel, undermining the gains that had been made. After eight years, the United States had pushed al-Qaeda’s headquarters about one hundred miles across the border into Pakistan.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Book but- Worst Narrator Ever
- De Mark C en 01-08-11
De: Seth G. Jones
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The American War in Afghanistan
- A History 1st Edition
- De: Carter Malkasian
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 27 h y 3 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon - but only after a stay of nearly two decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A superb summary of the Afghan war
- De Charles Olmsted en 06-18-22
De: Carter Malkasian
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
- De: William Perry
- Narrado por: Kevin F Spalding
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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His journey has just begun
- De Amazon Customer en 04-18-17
De: William Perry
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Pakistan on the Brink
- The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
- De: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
What are the possibilities—and hazards—facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both of these countries? What does the immediate future hold, and what are America’s choices going forward? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid—Pakistan’s preeminent journalist—takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Very Long NPR-like Interview and History Lesson
- De Harry Zimmer en 04-23-12
De: Ahmed Rashid
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
- A Military History
- De: Andrew J. Bacevich
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 845
From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise - now more than 30 years old and with no end in sight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Key to Understanding the US Need for Perp. War
- De Darwin8u en 05-01-16
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The Gamble
- General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks's #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq - The Gamble is the next news-breaking installment. Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Sure Bet
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: Thomas E. Ricks
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88 Days to Kandahar
- A CIA Diary
- De: Robert L. Grenier
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 251
In his gripping narrative, we meet General Tommy Franks, who bridles at CIA control of "his" war; General "Jafar Amin", a gruff Pakistani intelligence officer who saves Grenier from committing career suicide; Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's brilliant ambassador to the US, who tries to warn her government of the al-Qaeda threat; "Mark", the CIA operator who guides GulAgha Shirzai to bloody victory over the Taliban.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Honest conclusion based on practical realities.
- De rehman en 03-30-15
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The Insurgents
- David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
- De: Fred Kaplan
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Based on previously unavailable documents and interviews with more than 100 key players, including General David Petraeus, The Insurgents unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the main insurgency is the one led at home by a new generation of officers - including Petraeus, John Nagl, David Kilcullen, and H. R. McMaster - who were seized with an idea on how to fight these kinds of "small wars" and who adapted their enemies' techniques to overhaul their own army.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How to fight a war and win
- De Chupuk en 05-03-16
De: Fred Kaplan
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The War Within
- A Secret White House History 2006-2008
- De: Bob Woodward
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. With unparalleled intimacy and detail, Bob Woodward takes listeners deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial back channels, distrust, and determination within the White House, Pentagon, State Department, intelligence agencies, and U.S. military headquarters in Iraq.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too short the story...
- De Mr. Miint en 10-21-08
De: Bob Woodward
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Fiasco
- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 409
The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History not Politics
- De Scott en 08-10-06
De: Thomas E. Ricks
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Knife Fights
- A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
- De: John Nagl
- Narrado por: Brian Hutchison
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington. When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that America’s military superiority meant that the age of conventional combat was nearing an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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There's so much I didn't know.
- De Lori James en 12-07-22
De: John Nagl
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The Accidental Admiral
- A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
- De: ADM. James Stavridis USN - Ret.
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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After he was selected to be NATO's 16th Supreme Allied Commander, the New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "Renaissance admiral." A US Naval Academy graduate with a master's degree and doctorate from Tufts University, conversant in both French and Spanish, this author of numerous books and articles impressed the Navy's leaders and senior Pentagon civilians. The Accidental Admiral offers an intimate look at the challenges of directing NATO operations in Afghanistan, military intervention in Libya, and preparation for possible war in Syria.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insider View on Complexity in Nato
- De Theo Horesh en 05-16-22
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My Share of the Task
- A Memoir
- De: General Stanley McChrystal
- Narrado por: Kevin Collins
- Duración: 19 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010
In this illuminating memoir, McChrystal frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. He delves candidly into the intersection of history, leadership, and his own experience to produce a book of enduring value. Joining the troubled post-Vietnam army as a young officer, McChrystal witnessed and participated in some of our military’s most difficult struggles. He describes the many outstanding leaders he served with and the handful of bad leaders he learned not to emulate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Incomplete ending
- De Jfadams en 04-23-13
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Surge
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- Gary
- 01-18-21
The Best book on Counter Insurgency
Provides a clear & concise explanation of the complexity of counterinsurgency.
Highly Recommended to those willing to understand future COIN operation.
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- BBP
- 02-24-18
Helpful for the Army War College
Really enjoyed this audible book. I’m reading it for the War College and hearing the words added so much more to my absorption of the information.
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