A review by lazy0718
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan by Jason Amerine, Eric Blehm

5.0

I didn't know anything about this book before I started reading it. The terrible tragedy that happens to Special Forces team came as a surprise (though it is alluded to a few times in the book). I was moved by this account of the small team of Green Berets who put their training to the test and tried to help take over Afghanistan. It is hard not to read this story with the knowledge we have now (The Taliban weren't completely defeated, Karzai might be corrupt, etc.) Unfortunately that means some of the men might come off as naive, but I think that would do them a disservice. They did the best that they could with the resources and information they had. And their best? It was pretty damn impressive.

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in how the Special Forces do some of their work and how Hamid Karzai came to lead the new Afghanistan.