True-Life Grit
Marine-to-Marine reporting from Bing West in Afghanistan
Bing West is the author of the new book The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan. West is a combat vet himself, and the book is an on-the-scene chronicle of the war we’re in. The 70-year-old West compares himself to “the old football player invited to sit on the bench” and tells National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez that “the young grunts are stronger and smarter than we were, but we were better looking.”
West’s is an honest, gripping, important analysis of the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan – where we are and where we can be.