I just finished Sean Naylor’s excellent “Not a Good Day to Die“. Major Donald E. Vandergriff reviews the book here.

As Sean so vividly describes, at dawn on March 2, 2002, America’s first major battle of the 21st century began. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan’s Shahikot valley and into heavy enemy defenses. They were about to pay a bloody price for high level strategic miscalculations that underestimated the enemy’s strength and willingness to fight. Sean’s book highlights that despite a mountain of historical evidence that is now available in the 21st Century via the Internet, our nation continues to make strategic and operational mistakes that, fortunately, an enemy has not yet been able to totally exploit.

A must read for those interested in our Foreign Affairs. Lind’s “Of Cabbages & Kings” provides some useful perspective as well. Meanwhile, the war continues in Afghanistan.