02141nam a2200325 a 4500001001500000005001700015008004100032020003500073020003000108040000600138050001400144082002700158100002300185245003900208260004500247300002100292520107300313650002301386650002601409650003301435650002401468650002001492650001801512650002401530650003301554856008201587942001201669999001701681952011701698ASIN140914487920170105102932.0150313s2012    xxu                 eng d  a1409144879 (paperback)c$28.75  a9781409144878 (paperback)  a004aDS371.41204a958.10474092bHAS 20121 aHastings, Michael.14aThe operators /cMichael Hastings.  a[S.l.] :bOrion Publishing Group,c2012.  a432 p. ;c24 cm.  aGeneral Stanley McChrystal, the innovative commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was living large. Loyal staff liked to call him a 'rock star'. During a spring 2010 trip across Europe to garner additional Allied help for the war effort, McChrystal was accompanied by journalist Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone. For days, Hastings looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam, partying and openly bashing the Obama administration for what they saw as a lack of leadership. When Hastings' piece appeared a few months later, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was ordered to Washington, where he was unceremoniously fired. In The Operators, Hastings gives us a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of Allied military commanders, their high-stakes manoeuvres and often bitter bureaucratic in-fighting. He takes us on patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands and to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building gone awry, drawing back the curtain on a hellish complexity and, he fears, an unwinnable war. 0aAfghan War (2001-) 0aBuddhism and politics 0aHastings, Michael, 1980-2013 0aMilitary leadership 0aMilitary policy 0aUnited States 0aUnited States. Army 0aWar on Terrorism (2001-2009)403Amazon.comuhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409144879/chopaconline-20  2ddccBK  c16105d16105  001040708NFICaCIPSbCIPScGENd2013-09-10l0o958.10474092 HAS 2012pCIPS0001582r2015-03-13w2015-03-13yBK