Duel: The Strangest Story of the Afghan War.

by Andrew Cockburn

Our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan fought the war with home made bombs. We fought back with multi-billion dollar high technology systems. They won -- except in one Afghan town, where a single marine equipped with guts and smarts took on the Taliban bombers in a war that came down to single combat - a duel with bombs. This is the amazing story of that deadly summer-long duel between MSgt Tanos Chavez and the brilliant Taliban bomb-maker known as Sadam.

16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 14, 2012

About the author

Andrew Cockburn is the Washington Editor of Harper's magazine and the author of many articles and books on national security, including the New York Times Editor's Choice Rumsfeld and The Threat, which destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the Cold War. He is a regular opinion contributor to the Los Angeles Times and has written for, among others, the New York Times, National Geographic and the London Review of Books.

Reviews

[Brad Theado · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read, too quick in my opinion.