The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
By Timothy Sandefur
New York: Penguin, 2022
276 pages, $27
Elliot Ackerman’s The Fifth Act may be the first great book about the Afghanistan war. Part memoir, part policy analysis, it uses the nauseating surrender of the United States to the Taliban in 2021 as a point of departure for a series of reflections on the irrationality with which the war was waged and the consequen…
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