Every war has a seminal novel, a book that really resonates with generation that wrote it and the following generations from the Iliad to Gore Vidal's historical fiction to The Centurions by Jean Larteguy to From Here to Eternity by James Jones to this one.References:Paul Avallone <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3UrFCu2">Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War</a>Jean Larteguy <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3w3ixoi">The Centurions</a>Anton Myrer <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3U8JaA9">Once an Eagle</a>My Substack:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx">https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx</a>Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

Ep 027 "The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse (Part One)"

An unauthorized podcast series peeking behind the curtain at the vast machinery and briar patch politics of fighting terrorism and insurgency and everything in between. I'm a "COINtra" and not a "COINdinista", the latter are the vast army of apparatchiks and apologists who fire the engines of Irregular Warfare (IW) planet-wide. We're the skeptics and doubters of all things IW and special operations. And we are a tiny sliver of the IW community. I have noticed a jarring gap in this part of the discussion and intend on filling the breach.Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare PodcastSmedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian InstituteChasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTubeI am an Amazon Affiliate.You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me