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Imperial Grunts

The American Military On The Ground

by Robert D. Kaplan

ISBN: 1400061326
ISBN-13: 9781400061327
Format: Hardcover

Summary

America's Special Forces-supersoldiers from the Army and Marines-are an essential part of America's global mission and the war on terror. In IMPERIAL GRUNTS, journalist Robert Kaplan examines the training and deployment of these supersoldiers in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq, including their important role in the battles of Fallujah, as well as other locales such as the Phillipines and Mongolia. These first-on-the-ground troops, highly intelligent and educated, engage in a number of ways, including storming training camps, negotiating with tribes, providing training to foreign soldiers, and building schools and medical facilities. The author of the acclaimed BALKAN GHOSTS, Kaplan draws on his extensive knowledge of the military and politics to provide a new view of a little-known but important aspect of waging war and peace.

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"[Mr. Kaplan's] on-the-ground reportage makes for riveting reading. He provides vivid and highly chilling accounts of the dangers faced by members of the American military in places like Falluj in Iraq and Colombia's Arauca Province, even as he leaves the reader with a keen appreciation of the expertise and versatility of Special Forces units, who are as adept at executing emergency commando raids as they are at the long, frustrating work of training indigenous armies and pursuing narco-terrorists."    -- Michiko Kakutani

   -- New York Times

"The invariably buff, commonsensical soldiers [Kaplan] encounters hold forth in a stirring vernacular of acronym-laced profanity, and, together, constitute an admirable portrait of America's volunteer,working class warrior caste."

   -- New Yorker

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2005
Size: 7 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.6 pounds
Pages: 421

Publisher's Notes

A veteran journalist and author of Balkan Ghosts offers a thought-provoking look at American imperialism from the perspective of the global war on terrorism and the role of America's elite military forces, in a study that reassesses the changing involvement of the United States in world affairs.

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