Afghanistan

I just finished a novel, "Green On Blue," by a new author Elliott Ackerman.  He has had five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.  He gives a picture, well written, I find, of the how and the why of the ongoing war in Afghanistan.  He has a unique, and surprising to me, reason for how this war is conducted.  What if he is right?   It made me think.  I admit I am no expert on this war, why it has gone on so long with no real resolution.  He takes an insiders view of it all.  It is a short novel, no door stopper.  I recommend you give it a read.  Isn't this what is fascinating about reading broadly instead of just what seems to support a view you already have.  I would call this novel, historical fiction.