Dog Company : A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command (Hardcover)
Dog Company : A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command (Hardcover)
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Dog Company : A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command (Hardcover)

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Now with a forward by Sean Hannity, this powerful story of brotherhood, bravery, and patriotism exposes the true stories behind some of the Army's darkest secrets.

The Army does not want you to read this book. It does not want to advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting American soldiers at risk. It does not want to reveal the new lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U.S. soldiers and Marines while setting free spies who kill Americans.

This very system ambushed Captain Roger Hill and his men.

Hill, a West Point grad and decorated combat veteran, was a rising young officer who had always followed the letter of the military law. In 2007, Hill got his dream job: infantry commander in the storied 101st Airborne. His new unit, Dog Company, 1-506th, had just returned stateside from the hell of Ramadi. The men were brilliant in combat but unpolished at home, where paperwork and inspections filled their days.

With tough love, Hill and his First Sergeant, an old-school former drill instructor named Tommy Scott, turned the company into the top performers in the battalion.

Hill and Scott then led Dog Company into combat in Afghanistan, where a third of their men became battlefield casualties after just six months. Meanwhile, Hill found himself at war with his own battalion commander, a charismatic but difficult man who threatened to relieve Hill at every turn. After two of his men died on a routine patrol, Hill and a counterintelligence team busted a dozen enemy infiltrators on their base in the violent province of Wardak. Abandoned by his high command, Hill suddenly faced an excruciating choice: follow Army rules the way he always had, or damn the rules to his own destruction and protect the men he'd grown to love.
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Apr 11, 2017
Randall
5 out of 5 stars review

Inspirational Leadership on countless levels...

A preeminently lucid, compelling, accessible, and downright surprising story about the complexities of war in our time. My heart sank and my jaw dropped repeatedly. I cannot think of a book in recent memory that does more to elevate the importance of basic empathy, ethical decision-making, loyalty, duty, judgment, sacrifice, physical and moral courage in war. Sure, the book is action-packed and incredibly tragic, but you will swell with patriotism and pride when you realize the characters, undeniably heroes, are real. By the end, you'll wish there are always Dog Companies ready to support and defend America. A must read for Soldiers interested in the suffering, confusion, exhaustion, fog, fear, and friction that pervade war.

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Apr 12, 2017
WildBill
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Blows my mind

Great insight into how politics on the battlefield is the wrong answer. They are warriors, not politicians. Fighting men know what they need to do to fight these wars. When diplomacy fails, we send rough men to handle things. If our nation can't back our own fighting men over the enemy, or stomach what has to be done, then don't send them. If America doesn't toughen up and stop giving our enemies the advantage over our own, we will be no more.

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