5/12/2023 0 Comments The Last Season by Eric Blehm![]() The author provides a minute-by-minute account of this dramatic campaign, and the page never flags. Within a month this small band had assembled a guerilla army that fought its way to Kandahar, the Taliban capital in the south, and forced its surrender-though the mission was marred by a gruesome friendly-fire incident that killed and crippled many team members. In November 2001, helicopters dropped the team inside Taliban-controlled southern Afghanistan where it joined Karzai and his few supporters. Blehm delivers biographies of team members and their leaders as well as the nuts-and-bolts preparation for the mission. With no alternative, American leaders decided to support Hamid Karzai (Afghanistan’s president today), at the time an obscure Pashtun who had returned from exile to gather support. Worse, the population was Pashtun, the majority tribe that refused to accept a government dominated by the non-Pashtun Northern Alliance. Blehm ( The Last Season, 2006) recounts Green Beret exploits in southern Afghanistan where no organized anti-Taliban opposition existed. In Horse Soldiers (2009), Doug Stanton chronicled the soldiers who assisted Northern Alliance forces in crushing the Taliban. Another stirring account of American Special Forces heroics.Īfter 9/11, America could not rush a conventional army into Afghanistan to wreak vengeance on al-Qaeda, so it sent elite Special Forces teams. ![]()
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