Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
The case that the Afghanistan war was lost in its first year, and that everything after was denial.
Scott Horton argues that the United States achieved its stated objectives in Afghanistan within months, then spent two decades on an occupation it could neither define nor win. The book is assembled largely from the thousands of interviews Horton has conducted with reporters, veterans and former officials, giving it an unusually dense trail of sources for a polemic. It is written from an explicitly antiwar position.
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