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Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan de Michael G. Waltz

Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan

Autor Michael G. Waltz Cuvânt înainte de Peter Bergen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2023

O fetiță din Ghazni devine punctul de plecare pentru o incursiune brutal de onestă în mecanismele puterii și ale războiului. Ceea ce diferențiază Warrior Diplomat de alte cronici ale conflictului afgan este dualitatea unică a perspectivei lui Michael G. Waltz. Descoperim aici un autor care, într-o lună, dezbătea mizele geostrategice în Situation Room la Casa Albă, iar în următoarea, patrula prin munții stâncoși ai Afganistanului ca membru al Forțelor Speciale. Această dublă identitate îi permite să identifice prăpastia dintre deciziile luate la Washington și realitatea sângeroasă din teren.

Pe același raft cu The Wrong War de Bing West, Warrior Diplomat păstrează intensitatea luptelor de infanterie, dar pune un accent mult mai puternic pe eșecurile birocratice și diplomatice care au subminat efortul militar. Structura cărții este construită ca un dialog între două lumi: capitolele alternează între „War of Ideas” la Pentagon și ambuscadele din Valea Tagab sau dilemele de dezvoltare din clinica din Achin. Găsim în aceste pagini o critică asumată a sistemului de detenție „catch-and-release” și a aversiunii față de risc care, în viziunea autorului, a prelungit inutil conflictul.

Prin cele 17 hărți și 31 de fotografii incluse, cititorul este ghidat vizual prin complexitatea tribală a regiunii, de la tribul Mangal până la granița cu Pakistanul. Michael G. Waltz nu oferă doar o biografie militară, ci un studiu de caz despre cum „dorința de a ignora problema” la nivel politic se traduce în pierderi de vieți omenești pe front. Este o lectură densă, marcată de un ton cinematic, care refuză simplificările și ne obligă să privim războiul prin ochii celui care a ajutat la scrierea strategiei, doar pentru a o vedea eșuând în timp ce o executa.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781640125742
ISBN-10: 1640125744
Pagini: 430
Ilustrații: 31 photographs, 17 maps, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Potomac Books Inc
Colecția Potomac Books
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor interesați de istoria militară contemporană și de culisele politicii de apărare a SUA. Warrior Diplomat oferă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care birocrația poate paraliza operațiunile speciale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a conflictului afgan, dincolo de titlurile de știri, explicată de un om care a luptat atât cu insurgenții talibani, cât și cu inerția de la Washington.

Despre autor

Michael G. Waltz este un personaj remarcabil în peisajul securității naționale americane, fiind locotenent-colonel în cadrul trupelor de elită Green Berets (Forțele Speciale). Dincolo de cariera militară activă, Waltz a ocupat funcții de înaltă responsabilitate politică, servind ca și consilier pe probleme de politică de apărare pentru vicepreședintele Dick Cheney. Expertiza sa este recunoscută și în mediul academic și de analiză, fiind președinte al Metis Solutions și cercetător principal în cadrul New America Foundation. Această combinație rară de experiență de luptă și viziune strategică guvernamentală fundamentează analiza sa critică asupra intervențiilor externe ale Statelor Unite.

Descriere scurtă

Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policymakers in Washington, DC and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have dealt with these issues in the White House situation room and on the front line. Michael G. Waltz has done just that, working as a policy advisor to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and also serving in the mountains of Afghanistan as a Green Beret, directly implementing strategy in the field that he helped devise in Washington.

In Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret’s Battles from Washington to Afghanistan, Waltz shares his unique firsthand experiences, revealing the sights, sounds, emotions, and complexities involved in the war in Afghanistan. Waltz highlights the policy issues that plagued the war effort, from the drug trade to civilian casualties, to a lack of resources in comparison to Iraq, to the overall coalition strategy. He points out that stabilizing Afghanistan and the region remains crucial to national security and that a long-term commitment to Afghanistan is imperative if the United States is to remain secure.

Notă biografică

Michael G. Waltz ​represents North Central Florida in Congress and is a colonel in the National Guard, a combat-decorated Green Beret, and a former White House and Pentagon policy advisor. He served more than twenty-six years in the U.S. Army and as a member of Congress was heavily involved with assisting Americans and Afghans during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Peter Bergen is the author of four books about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, including, most recently, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Foreword by Peter Bergen
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: A Little Girl in Ghazni
1. State of the War: Office of the Secretary of Defense
2. Arabs, Afghans, and Americans: The War of Ideas
3. The Tagab Valley: Patrolling to Ambush
4. The Clinic in Achin: Development Dilemmas
5. The Road to Musa Qala: The Taliban Are Back
6. The French in Maruf: A Pawn in a Diplomatic Game
7. Operation Perth: War by Consensus
8. Back to Washington: The Pentagon and the White House
9. The Mangal Tribe: Protecting People We Can’t Access
10. The Elder in Khost: Risk Aversion and the Cost of Inaction
11. Night Raid: The Catch-and-Release Detention System
12. Blackbeard Rising: The Afghan National Army Commandos
13. On the Border with Pakistan: The Rocket’s Red Glare
14. The Tribes of Chamkani: The Community Defense Initiative
15. Washington Again: Wishing the Problem Away
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"Waltz, a lieutenant colonel in the Army reserves, commanded a Special Forces company in Afghanistan and held high counterterrorism positions at the Pentagon and White House. Combining what he saw on the ground with what he gleaned in Washington, Waltz offers his thoughts on the U.S. military and government’s management of the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. . . . Waltz succeeds in his goal of explaining how the war in Afghanistan has been executed, making a case that the continuing chaos that nation endures is "directly connected" to the U.S. national interest."—Publishers Weekly

"Warrior Diplomat [is] a memoir of unique insight into the hope and tragedy of America’s war in Afghanistan. . . . There is an almost surreal quality in the memoir of a man who briefed and wrote policy proposals for the powerful Vice-President one month, and in the next, shared meals with Afghan farmers or scrambled over walls in the dark of night to grab a Taliban commander, visiting relatives. . . . A must read book to understand how America’s war in Afghanistan was fought so hard, for so long to so few measurable results."—Mark Safranski, Pragati

"Few people in Washington must execute the policies they help craft. Warrior Diplomat is a must-read, firsthand examination of the Afghan war through the experiences of a practitioner at both ends of the spear."—Robert M. Gates, former U.S. secretary of defense

"Michael Waltz distills the hard-earned wisdom of more than a decade of deep involvement in America’s Afghan campaign. Unlike most other participants, however, Waltz served as a Special Forces officer on the ground and as a senior policy maker in Washington. One can only wish that more of our decision-makers possessed his breadth of vision and experience."—Nathaniel C. Fick, author of One Bullet Away

"Using his singular set of experiences as a U.S. Army Special Forces operator and Washington policy insider, Mike Waltz captures the policy ambivalences, implementation challenges, and individual heroics that have made the U.S. effort in Afghanistan such a conundrum for presidents, generals, and the American people. But Waltz never loses sight of the human side of the equation and never gives in to defeatism or fatalism. His wise advice for the future should be heeded by U.S. leaders, now and in the future."—David Sedney, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia

"Warrior Diplomat is an important book that provides an unparalleled, firsthand account of America's role in Afghanistan. Michael Waltz brings us into the inner sanctums of the White House and the Pentagon, where the war was being planned and debated, and then leads us onto the battlefields of Afghanistan."—Seth G. Jones, author of In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

"Mike Waltz's important new book deftly charts 'what might have been' over the course of a long, largely indecisive war. NATO's largely unseen failures in Afghanistan are perhaps better charted here than in any other recent account—and it is a story that needs to be told as we think about future coalition operations. Mike stitches together the long thirteen-year arc of this story as few others could, from front line to the conference tables of policy makers in Washington and Europe. This is a book that needs to be read to understand what really happened over the last decade-plus in Afghanistan—and why."—Lieutenant General (Ret.) Dave Barno, former commander, Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan

"Sometimes the right book comes along at just the right time—such is the case with Michael G. Waltz's new book, Warrior Diplomat released this week. The title describes Waltz well—he served as a Green Beret in Afghanistan and returned to Washington to work for the National Security Council at the White House."—Dana Perino, former spokeswoman for President George W. Bush and co-host of "The Five" on Fox News

Descriere

Michael G. Waltz offers a unique, firsthand account of the American war effort in Afghanistan as he recounts experiences as both a policy official and a Special Forces officer in the Bush and Obama administrations.