The Last Commander: The Once and Future Battle for Afghanistan
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The compelling inside story of how America abandoned Afghanistan.
When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, the last commander of the army of the Afghan republic, was still fighting to the end. In this firsthand account, he reveals how his troops were starved of ammunition for two years before the final pullout, while America was glad-handing the Taliban. Although Sadat spent his early career fighting alongside the CIA to track down al-Qaeda in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, it was in conventional combat—leading from the front—that he made his name. In The Last Commander, he contends that Afghanistan could have won the war if support had continued. President Biden may have ended America’s longest war, but the story does not end there. Now Sadat’s birth country is plunged into barbarism, where women are beaten for showing their face and his former comrades are hunted down and killed. But Sadat is planning to fight back. It will not be easy, but this riveting personal account of combat shows that if anyone can do it, he can.
Sadat’s story was told in the Emmy Award-winning documentary Retrograde. Now he tells it for himself.
Dennis R. Bruzina –
The Best
[...]Factual’ amust to read.
Safi –
I was once a powerful general, but now I am a refugee with almost nothing
[...]I just finished reading The Last Commander: The Once and Future Battle for Afghanistan by Sami Sadat. This powerful account chronicles the harrowing and unforgettable U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sadat’s story encapsulates the experiences of thousands of Afghans who had to leave everything behind in the blink of an eye in 2021. It’s a heartbreaking yet essential read, offering deep insight into a pivotal moment in history.
Boats –
Insightful view of Afghanistan
[...]Good read but presents first hand views that do not fit narrative of the many foreign policy experts the United States is fortunate to have in Hollywood and the media. Sami Sadat’s story is distressing and begins with how he in a matter of days went from being the top General in the Afghan Army to a refugee. He goes on to present a good deal of information that should be of interest. Readers can agree or disagree with his interpretation of events but his insight is difficult to duplicate.
Azim –
Great Army book, recommend it for everybody
[...]Thanks for the Amazon for sailing great books and it was a great book and history and life experience fighting for the country and I have read it and recommend this great book for everyone like to read ………
Amazon Customer –
Against all odds it is uplifting
[...]Compelling reading and extremely useful in combatting the banal and false narrative that losing was inevitable.
SeaJay –
A harrowing story of a good man that believed in America.
[...]Want to know the front line, first hand story of USA’s rise and fall in Afghanistan ? Here it is, like you are there.
Kindle Customer –
And extremely engaging and eye-opening book
[...]The Last Commander by Sami Sadat is a gripping and enlightening account of the Afghan War (2001-2021) it names a lot of the bad actors in the Afghan Government and senior leaders in the military and intelligence services who, for too long refused to take any real ownership or initiative in their country’s war against the Taliban and were all too happy to sit in their offices, building patronage networks off of American (and their own patriotic Afghan subordinate’s) blood and treasure.The book describes in riveting detail how in 2019 and 2020 the new generation of Western trained and indoctrinated (I do not mean that word in a bad way) Afghan Leaders finally started to rise high enough through the ranks to make real tangible and sustainable differences in how the Afghans ran what was always going to ultimately be” their war”. As a result of this fresh, energetic Patriotic, and competent new generation of Afghan Leaders, gains against the Taliban that were being made by the Afghans that were also sustainable until the Peace Talks started and both the Trump and Biden Administrations effectively pulled the rug out from under the ANDSF.