“The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.”
War Without End
C.J. Chivers | The New York Times Magazine | August 7, 2018 | 11,261 words
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“The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.”
