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The forever war by Dexter Filkins. He was a NY times reporter that saw the Middle East conflicts from the 90s through September 11 and then onto iraq. It covers more iraq than Afghanistan but it all is relevant. It’s a great book and really opens your eyes to why this will go on forever.

Copied from the books description on Amazon:

The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs. Through the eyes of Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we witness the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, the aftermath of the attack on New York on September 11th, and the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins is the only American journalist to have reported on all these events, and his experiences are conveyed in a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters and astonishing scenes.

There a great book called The Forever War

https://www.amazon.com/Forever-War-Dexter-Filkins/dp/0307279448

If you’re looking for a reading recommendation on the War on Terror, I highly recommend Dexter Filkin’s “The Forever War.”

The Forever War https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307279448/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Q6C609DQW8GGX526AF4A

Filkin was a correspondent with the New York Times who covered the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, including pivotal moments like the Battle of Fallujah.

This Amazon Review does it much better justice, so I’ll quote it here:

> One of the stories he tells is about a doctor in a hospital in Iraq after the invasion. At the time of his visit the hospital was without power due to the war and a lot of babies were not surviving because of it. Filkins was talking to the doctor about it and the doctor was explaining how these power outtages did not happen under Saddam. Filkins wondered how many babies were dying and the doctor explained that they did not have good records anymore because without the discipline instilled by Saddam’s regime the hospital staff was not bothering to do their job. But then Filkins asked the doctor if he thought it would have been better to leave Saddam in power and the doctor said no, things were bad under Saddam, and they would eventually get better now that he was gone.

> What was interesting to me about this story was that it did not fall neatly into any of the standard ideological positions on the war in the United States. It does not fall easily into the pro-war narrative of the US as liberators spreading democracy but it also does not fall easily into the anti-war narrative of the US as a colonial power that should have left well enough alone. It would be very hard for either side to use this story in their propaganda. I am convinced that the world is too complex and multi-dimensional to fit into the two-dimensional narratives we try to foist upon it and I think Filkins’s book does an excellent job of portraying the complexity without filtering it through a simplistic ideological lens.

> For that reason - and also because it was just a really absorbing narrative, Filkins knows how to spin a good yarn, and there are many genuinely moving and heart-breaking stories in this book - I wound up feeling like this was actually an ideal place to begin my studies of a very complex region. I might even return to it, and read it again, once I do have more of the context just because it was such a good read.

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Oh, I was referring to the Dexter Filkins book of the same name about the GWoT